Apache Pig permissions issue

Question

I\'m attempting to get Apache Pig up and running on my Hadoop cluster, and am encountering a permissions problem. Pig itself is launching and connecting to the cluster just

Answer 1

Probably your pig.temp.dir setting. It defaults to /tmp on hdfs. Pig will write temporary result there. If you don't have permission to /tmp, Pig will complain. Try to override it by -Dpig.temp.dir.

Answer 2

A problem might be that hadoop.tmp.dir is a directory on your local filesystem, not HDFS. Try setting that property to a local directory you know you have write access to. I've run into the same error using regular MapReduce in Hadoop.