we have ambari cluster with HIVE service the ambari configuration required to delete the files under /var/log/hive , if files with the same name are more then 30 from HIVE config hive_log_maxbackupindex=30 but when we access the master machines , we see more then 60 files with the same name example: cd /var/log/hive ls -ltr | grep hivemetastore | wc -l 61 ls -ltr | grep hiveserver2 | wc -l 61 we also remove the remark from the line log4j.appender.DRFA.MaxBackupIndex , and restart the hive service but this not help us please advice what could be the problem ? example of files under /var/log/hive -rw-r--r--. 1 hive hadoop 2752 Sep 2 19:05 hivemetastore-report.json
-rw-r--r--. 1 hive hadoop 2756 Sep 2 19:05 hiveserver2-report.json -rw-r--r--. 1 hive hadoop 636678 Sep 2 23:58 hiveserver2.log.2017-09-02
-rw-r--r--. 1 hive hadoop 1127874 Sep 2 23:59 hivemetastore.log.2017-09-02
-rw-r--r--. 1 hive hadoop 2369407 Sep 3 23:58 hiveserver2.log.2017-09-03 . . . .
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