brock, thanks again for the reply. I admit to not being entirely convinced - I don't see why I should have to fiddle with jars to finish configuring a cluster in order to use basic functionality. BUT, I do appreciate your time, and the fact that you validated the feature. v/r, Scott ... View more

Hi Brock - thanks for your reply.  I had previously solved the problem, but yes this was the issue.   James ... View more

It looks like DISTRO 682 is describing the same problem.   Simple queries fail with permissions error on scratch dir when querying read-only tables in HDFS   Should the 2 be linked and the later resolved?   Thanks,   Thad ... View more

I apologize, I must not have been searching on the correct terms in the forum search. Thanks for the info.   If anyone comes across this post please see:   http://community.cloudera.com/t5/Batch-SQL-Apache-Hive/WARN-main-conf-HiveConf-HiveConf-java-initialize-1488/m-p/22450/highlight/true#M438 ... View more

I am using hive server 1. OK, I will try hive server 2. Thanks. ... View more