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-#log4j file to disable logging from hadoop and pig during testing
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-# Root logger option
-log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, stdout
-
-#log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.conf=ERROR
-log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.mapred=WARN
-#log4j.logger.org.apache.pig=ERROR
-
-log4j.logger.com.yahoo.grid.pigunitsimple=INFO
-
-# Direct log messages to stdout
-log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %-5p %c:%L - %m%n
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