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Brock Noland commented on FLUME-1754:
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Roman,
Currently if the file starts with a . the file is ignored
(https://github.com/apache/flume/blob/trunk/flume-ng-core/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/client/avro/SpoolingFileLineReader.java#L296).
As such, files could be copied in as `.file` and then renamed to `file`.
This implements this requested feature, correct?
> augment Spooling Directory Source with a filemask property
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> Key: FLUME-1754
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1754
> Project: Flume
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
> Labels: newbie
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> Since the contract with Spooling Directory Source is that the files that are
> given to it are NOT supposed to be appended to, the only reliable way to
> satisfy it right now is to have a spooling subdirectory into which real files
> get symlinked or renamed (copying doesn't cut it since there's a race
> condition between flume seeing the file and cp actually closing it).
> The above works, but is clunky. It would be much nicer if I can point flume
> to a subdirectory AND also tell it to only pay attention to the files that
> match a particular mask. This would enable me to configure my log rolling
> system to roll to filenames that would match the mask and thus feed them to
> flume (while still appending to the active logs)
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