Lets say you want to execute "script.sh" 1. If you have script.sh inside your WF/lib/ path on HDFS, you just need <exec>script.sh</exec> 2. If you have script.sh on an arbitrary path on HDFS, you need: <exec>script.sh</exec> <file>/path/to/script.sh#script.sh</file> 3. Use of the below form with (1) is redundant, but the subsequent form is when you want to invoke it as a different name: <exec>script.sh</exec> <file>script.sh#script.sh</file> <exec>linked-script-name.sh</exec> <file>original-script-name.sh#linked-script-name.sh</file> ... View more

Use the second one. See http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/05/how-to-use-the-sharelib-in-apache-oozie-cdh-5/ which explains the newer timestamped paths. ... View more

Thanks for your response. The problem is already solved. My Java action uses an instance (say variable fs) of org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem class. At the end of the Java action, I use fs.close(), which will cause the problem on the next period of Oozie job. So when I removed this line, everything went well again. ... View more