Oozie Job Error - java.io.IOException: configuration is not specified

Question

I have created one oozie workflow for hive script to load data in a table.

My workflow.xml contains -

<workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.4" name="Hive-Table-Insertion">
  <start to="InsertData"/>

  <action name="InsertData">
    <hive xmlns="uri:oozie:hive-action:0.4">
      <job-tracker>${jobTracker}</job-tracker>
      <name-node>${nameNode}</name-node>
      <prepare>
        <delete path="${workflowRoot}/output-data/hive"/>
        <mkdir path="${workflowRoot}/output-data"/>
      </prepare>
      <job-xml>${workflowRoot}/hive-site.xml</job-xml>
      <configuration>
        <property>
          <name>oozie.hive.defaults</name>
          <value>${workflowRoot}/hive-site.xml</value>
        </property>
      </configuration>
      <script>load_data.hql</script>
    </hive>
    <ok to="end"/>
    <error to="fail"/>
  </action>

  <kill name="fail">
    <message>Hive failed, error message[${wf:errorMessage(wf:lastErrorNode())}]</message>
  </kill>
  <end name="end"/>
</workflow-app>

My job.properties file contains -

nameNode=hdfs://localhost:8020
jobTracker=localhost:8021
queueName=default
workflowRoot=HiveLoadData
oozie.libpath=${nameNode}/user/oozie/share/lib
oozie.wf.application.path=${nameNode}/user/${user.name}/${workflowRoot}

When I try to submit my job using command "oozie job -oozie http://localhost:11000/oozie -config /user/oozie/HiveLoadData/job.properties -submit" I get following error,

java.io.IOException: configuration is not specified
        at org.apache.oozie.cli.OozieCLI.getConfiguration(OozieCLI.java:729)
        at org.apache.oozie.cli.OozieCLI.jobCommand(OozieCLI.java:879)
        at org.apache.oozie.cli.OozieCLI.processCommand(OozieCLI.java:604)
        at org.apache.oozie.cli.OozieCLI.run(OozieCLI.java:577)
        at org.apache.oozie.cli.OozieCLI.main(OozieCLI.java:204)
configuration is not specified

Answer 1

The path that you give to the -config parameter must exist on the local drive (not on HDFS). Make sure that /user/oozie/HiveLoadData/job.properties does exist - do e.g. ls /user/oozie/HiveLoadData/job.properties on the same machine where you execute the oozie job -oozie... command