Can you try as user hadoop ? Cheers
On May 17, 2011, at 9:53 PM, jinhang du <dujinh...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > The default value is "/user/hive/warehouse" in hive.site.xml. After I changed > the directory to a path on HDFS, I got the exception. > > FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: > org.apache.hadoop.security. > AccessControlException org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: > Permission denied: > user=root, access=WRITE, inode="output > FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask > > Is this failure related to the hadoop-site.xml or something? > Thanks for your help. > > -- > dujinhang
