Your script location is wrong, start grunt in the directory with the script or provide full path to the script in the exec command ... View more

@Michael Häusler please post this as a new question. ... View more

Does it mean with HDP 2.5+ we support date type in Avro 1.8+? Because that would be awesome Venkat. ... View more

@Carol Elliott actually see if you can use the -D or -conf options -conf <configuration file> specify an application configuration file -D <property=value> use value for given property The -conf , -D , -fs and -jt arguments control the configuration and Hadoop server settings. For example, the -D mapred.job.name=<job_name> can be used to set the name of the MR job that Sqoop launches, if not specified, the name defaults to the jar name for the job - which is derived from the used table name. so in same fashion, try sqoop import -D hive.exec.scratchdir=... https://sqoop.apache.org/docs/1.4.6/SqoopUserGuide.html#_using_generic_and_specific_arguments ... View more

@Carol Elliott I didn't try this but can you try the following export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=$HADOOP_CLASSPATH:/location_of_your_hive_site.xml/* edit your hive-site.xml file to have own scratchdir so you will have your own copy of hive-site.xml then if it works you can add it to your bash_profile and source it. source ~/.bash_profile ... View more

Did you try to enable them In mapred-site and tez-site? It is interesting that it cannot find it. Also try setting it in mapred-site and include it with your workflow, not necessarily enabling it on the whole cluster. ... View more