SparkContext Error - File not found /tmp/spark-events does not exist

Question

Running a Python Spark Application via API call - On submitting the Application - response - Failed SSH into the Worker

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Answer 1

While trying to setup my spark history server on my local machine, I had the same 'File file:/tmp/spark-events does not exist.' error. I had customized my log directory to a non-default path. To resolve this, I needed to do 2 things.

1. edit $SPARK_HOME/conf/spark-defaults.conf -- add these 2 lines spark.history.fs.logDirectory /mycustomdir spark.eventLog.enabled true
2. create a link from /tmp/spark-events to /mycustomdir.
   ln -fs /tmp/spark-events /mycustomdir Ideally, step 1 would have solved my issue entirely, but i still needed to create the link so I suspect there might have been one other setting i missed. Anyhow, once I did this, i was able to run my historyserver and see new jobs logged in my webui.