I changed ownership of the directory
[root@namenode a1]# sudo hadoop fs -ls /tmp/flume
[root@namenode a1]# sudo hadoop fs -ls /tmp/
Found 7 items
drwxrwxrwx – root root 0 2015-02-04 15:53 /tmp/flume
drwxr-xr-x – admin hdfs 0 2015-01-09 18:12 /tmp/hive-beeswax-admin
But I got the same results.