This is the documentation for CDH 5.0.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Starting the Metastore

  Important:

If you are running the metastore in Remote mode, you must start the metastore before starting HiveServer2.

To run the metastore as a daemon, the command is: 

$ sudo service hive-metastore start
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