sudo vi /etc/profile

HIVE_HOME=/home/hadoop/source/hive-0.14.0
PATH=$HIVE_HOME/bin
export  HIVE_HOME 

<configuration>
<property>   
  <name>datanucleus.fixedDatastore</name>   
  <value>false</value>   
</property>
<property>
  <name>hive.metastore.execute.setugi</name>
  <value>true</value>
</property>

<property>
  <name>hive.metastore.warehouse.dir</name>
  <value>/home/hive/warehouse</value>
  <description>location of default database for the warehouse</description>
</property>

<!-- metadata database connection configuration -->

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL</name>
  <value>jdbc:mysql://10.211.55.18:3306/hive?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF-8&amp;createDatabaseIfNotExist=true</value>
  <description>JDBC connect string for a JDBC metastore</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName</name>
  <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value>
  <description>Driver class name for a JDBC metastore</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName</name>
  <value>root</value>
  <description>username to use against metastore database</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword</name>
  <value>root</value>
  <description>password to use against metastore database</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>hive.hwi.listen.host</name>
  <value>10.211.55.18</value>
  <description>This is the host address the Hive Web Interface will listen on</description>
</property>

<property>
  <name>hive.hwi.listen.port</name>
  <value>9999</value>
  <description>This is the port the Hive Web Interface will listen on</description>
</property>

<!-- configure hwi war package location -->
<!--
<property>
  <name>hive.hwi.war.file</name>
  <value>lib/hive-hwi-0.14.0.war</value>
  <description>This is the WAR file with the jsp content for Hive Web Interface</description>
</property>
-->
</configuration>

# Set HADOOP_HOME to point to a specific hadoop install directory
HADOOP_HOME=/home/hadoop/source/hadoop-2.5.1

[hadoop@cloud001 ~]$ hive

Logging initialized using configuration in file:/home/hadoop/source/hive-0.14.0/conf/hive-log4j.properties
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/hadoop/source/hadoop-2.5.1/share/hadoop/common/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.5.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/hadoop/source/hive-0.14.0/lib/hive-jdbc-0.14.0-standalone.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]
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