Ta Deepesh - that fixed it. At least I can now get one step further... at least schematool now loads the jdbc drivers before abending [on a 'connection refused' exception even though I can log into the MySQL db from the command line... sigh]. Thanks a million...
By the way, I put a symlink into HIVE_HOME/lib for the file (as opposed to physically copying it) - having multiple physical copies of something like a jdbc driver JAR creates too many opportunities for versions to get out of synch for my liking.
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