HttpAuthentication.html is out of date (HADOOP 10550) - some questions and proposed fix

2014-05-22 Thread Pankti Majmudar
Hi, I searched for Hadoop Http Authentication on google and came across a web page which lists the required steps: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/HttpAuthentication.html Should the fix for this bug be to update the document with the steps listed on the above webpage? Thanks.

Re: HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Rati
Ah, that makes sense. Would it make sense to default the root logger to the one defined in log4j.properties file instead of the static value in the script then? That way an admin can set all logging properties desired in the log4j.properties file, but can override with HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER to d

Re: HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER

2014-05-22 Thread Colin McCabe
It's not always practical to edit the log4j.properties file. For one thing, if you're using a management system, there may be many log4j properties sprinkled around the system, and it could be difficult to figure out which is the one you need to edit. For another, you may not (should not?) have p

Re: getCounters NPE

2014-05-22 Thread Jay Vyas
(sorry, i meant THROW a NPE, not " return a null). Big difference of course ! On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Jay Vyas wrote: > Hi hadoop ... Is there a reason why line 220, below, should ever return > null when > being called through the code path of job.getCounters() ? > > It appears that

getCounters NPE

2014-05-22 Thread Jay Vyas
Hi hadoop ... Is there a reason why line 220, below, should ever return null when being called through the code path of job.getCounters() ? It appears that there could be some indirection involving RPCs, etc, so im thinking its best to ask before I attempt to trace the call. 217 @Override 21

Struggling New Developer!

2014-05-22 Thread Ghunaim, Hussam
Hello everyone, After I studied a course in Hadoop and Mapreduce and wrote a couple of basic jobs, I tried to participate in developing these technologies into its next generation. However, when I looked through some of the submitted patches, I realized that I still miss a lot to be at the requir

[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-10626) Limit Returning Attributes for LDAP search

2014-05-22 Thread Jason Hubbard (JIRA)
Jason Hubbard created HADOOP-10626: -- Summary: Limit Returning Attributes for LDAP search Key: HADOOP-10626 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10626 Project: Hadoop Common Issu

Re: HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Rati
In my experience the default HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER definition will override any root logger defined in log4j.properties, which is where the problems have arisen. If the HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER definition in hadoop-config.sh were removed, wouldn't the root logger defined in the log4j.properties file be

[jira] [Resolved] (HADOOP-8446) make hadoop-core jar OSGi friendly

2014-05-22 Thread Steve Loughran (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8446?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Steve Loughran resolved HADOOP-8446. Resolution: Duplicate > make hadoop-core jar OSGi friendly > -