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Question

I ran this:

brew install hadoop

I have configured all the hadoop configuration files. 

.bash_profile :

### Java_HOME 
export JAVA_HOME="$(/usr/libexec/java_home)"

### HADOOP Environment variables
export HADOOP_PREFIX="/usr/local/Cellar/hadoop/2.2.0"
export HADOOP_HOME=$HADOOP_PREFIX
export HADOOP_COMMON_HOME=$HADOOP_PREFIX
export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=$HADOOP_PREFIX/libexec/etc/hadoop
export HADOOP_HDFS_HOME=$HADOOP_PREFIX
export HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME=$HADOOP_PREFIX
export HADOOP_YARN_HOME=$HADOOP_PREFIX

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:.
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$HADOOP_HOME/libexec/share/hadoop/common/hadoop-common-2.2.0.jar
export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$HADOOP_HOME/libexec/share/hadoop/hdfs/hadoop-hdfs-2.2.0.jar

Answer 1

You need to point the HADOOP_PREFIX to the libexec folder in the package:

export HADOOP_PREFIX="/usr/local/Cellar/hadoop/2.2.0/libexec"

You would then remove the libexec from your declaration of the conf directory:

export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=$HADOOP_PREFIX/etc/hadoop

This should work.