https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Trying-to-run-an-oozie-job-receiving-a-null-pointer/m-p/53150#M48847 <P>Try addig some arguments into your Oozie run command like so:</P><PRE>$ oozie job -oozie http://localhost:11000/oozie -config job.properties -run</PRE><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If those changes don't work for you might try the following:</P><OL><LI>Put your job.properties out in HDFS in the same directory as your workflow, then use Hue FileBrowser to execute the workflow and see if that works.&nbsp; To do that, just checkmark the workflow.xml and a button will appear for you to take action like a submit.</LI><LI>Reduce your workflow down to a simple email, then test... add the SSH, then test... keep adding and testing along the way.&nbsp; If things fail at the first and most simple test (email action), then we've eliminated the other actions as being the culprit, and likely quite a few of your job.properties variables too.</LI></OL> Mon, 03 Apr 2017 23:51:11 GMT tseader 2017-04-03T23:51:11Z