By default, hive.log is located in /tmp/${user}/hive.log
Best Regard, Jeff Zhang From: zhangjp <smart...@hotmail.com<mailto:smart...@hotmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 7:12 PM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: when start hive could not generate log file when i run command " hive" , the message as follows [@xxx/]# hive log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Logging initialized using configuration in file:/search/apache-hive-0.13.1-bin/conf/hive-log4j.properties? My hive-log4j.properties use the default template. but when I run "find -name hive.log" couldn't find any file.?