The script seems wrong. With this configuration, the lines for "hiveserver2" will never be valid. The settings in the previous lines "export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS=" will overwirte them all with the "$HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS" at the end. The name of ErrorFile will become "hive-metastore-error.log-`date +'%Y%m%d%H%M'" for example. The script should be: if [ "$SERVICE" = "metastore" ]; then .... elif [ "$SERVICE" = "hiveserver2" ]; then .... fi ... View more