https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Unable-to-successfully-launch-beeline-script-from-linux/m-p/199295#M161335 <P>I should also add:</P><P>In order to get the script to end I have to issue the Linux kill command.</P><P>Once I kill the pid, the script completes and finishes writing its output.</P><P>Before issuing the kill command this is what I see as output:</P><P>WARNING: Use "yarn jar" to launch YARN applications.</P><P>After issuing the kill command the process completes and writes its output:</P><PRE>Connecting to jdbc:hive2://xxx;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2 Connected to: Apache Hive (version 1.2.1000.2.4.2.0-258) Driver: Hive JDBC (version 1.2.1000.2.4.2.0-258) Transaction isolation: TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ 0: jdbc:hive2://xxx,&gt; use hdp_ground; No rows affected (0.071 seconds) 0: jdbc:hive2://xxx,&gt; select scan_create_dt_part from offload_scan_detail_orc where scan_create_dt_part = '20171001' limit 5; +----------------------+--+ | scan_create_dt_part | +----------------------+--+ | 20171001 | | 20171001 | | 20171001 | | 20171001 | | 20171001 | +----------------------+--+ 5 rows selected (0.135 seconds) 0: jdbc:hive2://xxx,&gt; Closing: 0: jdbc:hive2://xxx;serviceDiscoveryMode=zooKeeper;zooKeeperNamespace=hiveserver2 <BR /></PRE> Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:54:41 GMT carol_elliott 2017-11-20T22:54:41Z