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Pig Map reduce permission denied after history server enable

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I tried to enable history server using the link , I could do it only till hdfs dis -mkdir -p /app-logs as this was failing and i could not proceed.

Now when I run the pig script which is creating map reduce it is failing.with below error. nay idea?

  1. Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=mapred, access=READ, inode="/mr-history/tmp/hdfs/job_1459806783854_0001-1459807556718-hdfs-PigLatin%3ADefaultJobName-1459807582179-1-1-SUCCEEDED-default-1459807564263.jhist":hdfs:hdfs:-rwxrwx---
  2. at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSPermissionChecker.check(FSPermissionChecker.java:319)
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From the error above it shows mapred user is trying to create a director under /. Add mapred to user group hdfs and give it permission to rwx.

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From the error above it shows mapred user is trying to create a director under /. Add mapred to user group hdfs and give it permission to rwx.

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@Amit SharmaDid this resolve your issue?

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Sorry for late reply.. yes it resolved the issue.. Thank you very much

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Hi @Sunile Manjee It ws working finr that day. But today when i started my service, data node is not starting up. Can that be related? see the link below for my problem.

https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/26802/data-node-process-not-starting-up.html