You need to point to the exact jar file location and not just the directory location.
Vaibhav -----Original Message----- From: Sam William [mailto:sa...@stumbleupon.com] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 3:56 PM To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH I assume you need to set HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH to the jars that contain custom Input/OutputFormats/Serdes.. I did export HIVE_AUX_JARS_PATH to point to the correct dir containing the jars and then ran hive . My custom class doesnt seem to be available when I create a table using these classes . I get a class not found error . What am I missing here ? Sam William sa...@stumbleupon.com