diff --git build-common.xml build-common.xml
index 5422c39..1483e1d 100644
--- build-common.xml
+++ build-common.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@
+
+
+
+
@@ -409,11 +413,12 @@
+
-
+
diff --git data/conf/hive-log4j-hadoop23.properties data/conf/hive-log4j-hadoop23.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..54a511b
--- /dev/null
+++ data/conf/hive-log4j-hadoop23.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
+hive.root.logger=DEBUG,DRFA
+hive.log.dir=${build.dir.hive}/ql/tmp/
+hive.log.file=hive.log
+
+# Define the root logger to the system property "hadoop.root.logger".
+log4j.rootLogger=${hive.root.logger}, EventCounter
+
+# Logging Threshold
+log4j.threshhold=WARN
+
+# Null Appender
+log4j.appender.NullAppender=org.apache.log4j.varia.NullAppender
+
+#
+# Daily Rolling File Appender
+#
+
+log4j.appender.DRFA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.DRFA.File=${hive.log.dir}/${hive.log.file}
+
+# Rollver at midnight
+log4j.appender.DRFA.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
+
+# 30-day backup
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.MaxBackupIndex=30
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+
+# Pattern format: Date LogLevel LoggerName LogMessage
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
+# Debugging Pattern format
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n
+
+
+#
+# console
+# Add "console" to rootlogger above if you want to use this
+#
+
+log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
+log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{2}: %m%n
+
+#custom logging levels
+#log4j.logger.xxx=DEBUG
+
+#
+# Event Counter Appender
+# Sends counts of logging messages at different severity levels to Hadoop Metrics.
+#
+log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter
+
+
+log4j.category.DataNucleus=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.Datastore=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.Datastore.Schema=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Datastore=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Plugin=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.MetaData=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Query=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.General=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Enhancer=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration=ERROR,DRFA
+
diff --git data/conf/hive-log4j.properties data/conf/hive-log4j.properties
index 0b5c164..e3ae279 100644
--- data/conf/hive-log4j.properties
+++ data/conf/hive-log4j.properties
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ log4j.rootLogger=${hive.root.logger}, EventCounter
# Logging Threshold
log4j.threshhold=WARN
+# Null Appender
+log4j.appender.NullAppender=org.apache.log4j.varia.NullAppender
+
#
# Daily Rolling File Appender
#
diff --git data/conf/log4j.properties data/conf/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1234624
--- /dev/null
+++ data/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This file is to configure hadoop log4j
+# Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
+hive.root.logger=DEBUG,DRFA
+hive.log.dir=/tmp/
+hive.log.file=hive.log
+
+# Define the root logger to the system property "hadoop.root.logger".
+log4j.rootLogger=${hive.root.logger}, EventCounter
+
+# Logging Threshold
+log4j.threshhold=WARN
+
+# Null Appender
+log4j.appender.NullAppender=org.apache.log4j.varia.NullAppender
+
+#
+# Daily Rolling File Appender
+#
+
+log4j.appender.DRFA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.DRFA.File=${hive.log.dir}/${hive.log.file}
+
+# Rollver at midnight
+log4j.appender.DRFA.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
+
+# 30-day backup
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.MaxBackupIndex=30
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+
+# Pattern format: Date LogLevel LoggerName LogMessage
+#log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
+# Debugging Pattern format
+log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n
+
+
+#
+# console
+# Add "console" to rootlogger above if you want to use this
+#
+
+log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
+log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{2}: %m%n
+
+#custom logging levels
+#log4j.logger.xxx=DEBUG
+
+#
+# Event Counter Appender
+# Sends counts of logging messages at different severity levels to Hadoop Metrics.
+#
+log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter
+
+
+log4j.category.DataNucleus=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.Datastore=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.Datastore.Schema=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Datastore=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Plugin=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.MetaData=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Query=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.General=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.category.JPOX.Enhancer=ERROR,DRFA
+log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration=ERROR,DRFA
+
diff --git pdk/test-plugin/test/conf/log4j.properties pdk/test-plugin/test/conf/log4j.properties
index 80433fd..1234624 100644
--- pdk/test-plugin/test/conf/log4j.properties
+++ pdk/test-plugin/test/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{2}:
# Event Counter Appender
# Sends counts of logging messages at different severity levels to Hadoop Metrics.
#
-log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter
+log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter
log4j.category.DataNucleus=ERROR,DRFA