That configuration has been removed from HBase 2 years ago, so no. You need to point to the zookeeper ensemble. You can copy your hbase-site.xml file into hive's conf directory so that it gets all those configurations you have on your cluster.
J-D On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:28 AM, liming liu <andyliulim...@gmail.com>wrote: > Is there any possibility to start the hive server with the hbase.master > specified? > I know to hive -hiveconf hbase.master=ubuntu3:60000 > and hive --service hiveserver. > but how to specify the hbase.master when i start up the hive server? > > Thanks very much~ > > -- > Liu Liming(Andy) > Tel: +86-134-7253-4429 > MSN:javaman...@hotmail.com > SE@SJTU >
