hadoop2.x配置 - override log4j.properties in hadoop

Question:

How do I override the default log4j.properties in hadoop? If I set the hadoop.root.logger=WARN,console, it doesnot print the logs on the console, whereas what I want is that it shouldn't print the INFO in the logs file. I added a log4j.properties file in my jar, but I am unable to override the default one. In short, I want the log file to print only the errors and warnings.

# Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
hadoop.root.logger=INFO,console
hadoop.log.dir=.
hadoop.log.file=hadoop.log

#
# Job Summary Appender 
#
# Use following logger to send summary to separate file defined by 
# hadoop.mapreduce.jobsummary.log.file rolled daily:
# hadoop.mapreduce.jobsummary.logger=INFO,JSA
# 
hadoop.mapreduce.jobsummary.logger=${hadoop.root.logger}
hadoop.mapreduce.jobsummary.log.file=hadoop-mapreduce.jobsummary.log

# Define the root logger to the system property "hadoop.root.logger".
log4j.rootLogger=${hadoop.root.logger}, EventCounter

# Logging Threshold
log4j.threshold=ALL

#
# Daily Rolling File Appender
#

log4j.appender.DRFA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.DRFA.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/${hadoop.log.file}

# Rollver at midnight
log4j.appender.DRFA.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd

# 30-day backup
#log4j.appender.DRFA.MaxBackupIndex=30
log4j.appender.DRFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout

# Pattern format: Date LogLevel LoggerName LogMessage
log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
# Debugging Pattern format
#log4j.appender.DRFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n


#
# console
# Add "console" to rootlogger above if you want to use this 
#

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{2}: %m%n

#
# TaskLog Appender
#

#Default values
hadoop.tasklog.taskid=null
hadoop.tasklog.iscleanup=false
hadoop.tasklog.noKeepSplits=4
hadoop.tasklog.totalLogFileSize=100
hadoop.tasklog.purgeLogSplits=true
hadoop.tasklog.logsRetainHours=12

log4j.appender.TLA=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskLogAppender
log4j.appender.TLA.taskId=${hadoop.tasklog.taskid}
log4j.appender.TLA.isCleanup=${hadoop.tasklog.iscleanup}
log4j.appender.TLA.totalLogFileSize=${hadoop.tasklog.totalLogFileSize}

log4j.appender.TLA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.TLA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n

#
#Security appender
#
hadoop.security.log.file=SecurityAuth.audit
log4j.appender.DRFAS=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender 
log4j.appender.DRFAS.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/${hadoop.security.log.file}

log4j.appender.DRFAS.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.DRFAS.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n
#new logger
# Define some default values that can be overridden by system properties
hadoop.security.logger=INFO,console
log4j.category.SecurityLogger=${hadoop.security.logger}

#
# Rolling File Appender
#

#log4j.appender.RFA=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
#log4j.appender.RFA.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/${hadoop.log.file}

# Logfile size and and 30-day backups
#log4j.appender.RFA.MaxFileSize=1MB
#log4j.appender.RFA.MaxBackupIndex=30

#log4j.appender.RFA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
#log4j.appender.RFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{2} - %m%n
#log4j.appender.RFA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %-5p %c{2} (%F:%M(%L)) - %m%n

#
# FSNamesystem Audit logging
# All audit events are logged at INFO level
#
log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.audit=WARN

# Custom Logging levels

#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker=DEBUG
#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker=DEBUG
#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.audit=DEBUG

# Jets3t library
log4j.logger.org.jets3t.service.impl.rest.httpclient.RestS3Service=ERROR

#
# Event Counter Appender
# Sends counts of logging messages at different severity levels to Hadoop Metrics.
#
log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter

#
# Job Summary Appender
#
log4j.appender.JSA=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.JSA.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/${hadoop.mapreduce.jobsummary.log.file}
log4j.appender.JSA.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.JSA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{2}: %m%n
log4j.appender.JSA.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress$JobSummary=${hadoop.mapreduce.jobsummary.logger}
log4j.additivity.org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress$JobSummary=false

#
# MapReduce Audit Log Appender
#

# Set the MapReduce audit log filename
#hadoop.mapreduce.audit.log.file=hadoop-mapreduce.audit.log

# Appender for AuditLogger.
# Requires the following system properties to be set
#    - hadoop.log.dir (Hadoop Log directory)
#    - hadoop.mapreduce.audit.log.file (MapReduce audit log filename)

#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.mapred.AuditLogger=INFO,MRAUDIT
#log4j.additivity.org.apache.hadoop.mapred.AuditLogger=false
#log4j.appender.MRAUDIT=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
#log4j.appender.MRAUDIT.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/${hadoop.mapreduce.audit.log.file}
#log4j.appender.MRAUDIT.DatePattern=.yyyy-MM-dd
#log4j.appender.MRAUDIT.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
#log4j.appender.MRAUDIT.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p %c: %m%n

Answer:

If you use the default Log4j.properties file the logging settings get overridden by environment variables from the startup script. If you want to use the default log4j and just simply want to change the logging level, use$HADOOP_CONF_DIR/hadoop-env.sh

For example, to change your logger to DEBUG log level and DRFA logger, use

export HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER="DEBUG,DRFA"