HADOOP_LOG_DIR has to be set explicitly when running from the tarball ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-7895 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7895 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: build Affects Versions: 0.23.0 Reporter: Eli Collins When running bin and sbin commands from the tarball if HADOOP_LOG_DIR is not explicitly set in hadoop-env.sh it doesn't use HADOOP_HOME/logs by default like it used to, instead picks a wrong dir: {noformat} localhost: mkdir: cannot create directory `/eli': Permission denied localhost: chown: cannot access `/eli/eli': No such file or directory {noformat} We should have it default to HADOOP_HOME/logs or at least fail with a message if the dir doesn't exist, the env var isn't set. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira