Where to put JDBC drivers when using CDH4+Cloudera Manager?

Question

I am trying to get JDBC jars recognized by Sqoop2 (CDH 4.4.0), but no matter where I place them, they do not seem to be recognized.

I have followed advice:

1. here,

2. here,

3. and asked a similar question here.

Can someone please provide a definitive answer to this?

Answer 1

I would strongly recommend to follow the official installation guide for your Hadoop distribution and it's associated version. It seems that you are using CDH 4.4.0, but looking into CDH 4.2.1 installation instructions. Whereas in CDH 4.2.1 the JDBC driver jar files were expected in /usr/lib/sqoop2, since CDH 4.3.0 they are expected in /var/lib/sqoop2 instead (documentation).