After retrying that setting in mapred-site.xml, that is now working. I last had "mapred.jobtracker..." in the file, so I may have just had the setting misspelled, or failed to restart when I had it spelled correctly. Either way, all good now. Thanks for the quick follow-up!
Sincerely, Dolan Antenucci On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jeffrey Naisbitt <[email protected]>wrote: > Which version of hadoop are you using? Changing > ‘mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir’ in mapred-site.xml should work. Did > you restart the jobtracker after making the change? > With the latest version of hadoop on trunk, there is also > ‘yarn.app.mapreduce.staging-dir’ in yarn-site.xml > > -Jeff > > > On 9/9/11 1:38 PM, "Dolan Antenucci" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a way to change the staging directory in the config files? Mine > currently goes to "/<tmp-folder>/staging". > > I read someone else set mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir, but I have > had no luck with this (or slightly different versions of it) in my config > files. I'm guessing this other user set it in their code? How would I do > that if I run a command like, "hadoop jar > /usr/lib/hadoop/hadoop-*-examples.jar pi 2 100000"? My preference though > would be to overwrite this setting in the config files so that every user > wouldn't have to specify it (i.e. assuming I don't let them use the temp > folder). > > Thanks > > -Dolan Antenucci > > >
