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[Hadoop Wiki] Trivial Update of "Hive/GettingStarted" by RaghothamMurthy

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  Hive uses hadoop  that means:
    * you must have hadoop in your path OR
    * export HADOOP_HOME=<hadoop-install-dir>
+ 
+ In addition, you must create /tmp and /user/hive/warehouse 
+ (aka hive.metastore.warehouse.dir) and set them chmod g+w in 
+ HDFS before a table can be created in Hive. 
+ 
  
  To use hive command line interface (cli) from the shell:
  ''$ bin/hive''
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       * bin/hive -hiveconf x1=y1 -hiveconf x2=y2
      this sets the variables x1 and x2 to y1 and y2
  
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  === Error Logs ===
  Hive uses log4j for logging. By default logs are not emitted to the 
  console by the cli. They are stored in the file: