On Jul 23, 2013, at 1:03 AM, nabhajit wrote: > Hi, > > > I am trying to configure Hcatalog , which is now part of Hive-0.11.0. > > Do I have to make changes to the permission of the following files? > > $HCAT_HOME/bin/hcat and $HCAT_HOME/sbin/webhcat-server.sh
Yes, this is a known issue and has been fixed in trunk. > > as, currently they do not have execute permission. > > Also, do webhcat-default.xml file needs to be renamed to webhcat-site.xml ? No, you only need to create a webhcat-site.xml and populate it with values if you need to change the defaults. You can put only values that are different from the defaults in webhcat-site.xml. The format is the same as webhcat-default.xml. Alan. > > I am following the below link for configuration: > > http://hive.apache.org/docs/hcat_r0.5.0/configuration.html > > > Thanks, > > Nabhajit > >