how to run hive in debug mode

Question

i took example from cloudera website to write a custom SerDe for parsing a file

http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2012/12/how-to-use-a-serde-in-apache-hive/

it seems

Answer 1

Setting hive --hiveconf hive.root.logger=DEBUG,console may not always work because of company specific setup.

I ended up creating a hive-log4j.properties file in my home directory with following settings:

log4j.rootCategory=DEBUG,console
log4j.appender.console=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.console.target=System.err
log4j.appender.console.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{1}: %m%n

and started hive shell using CLASSPATH=$HOME hive which adds your home directory having hive-log4j.properties in front of the classpath and so is picked up.