Hi,

what happen when you start fume with a sink to STDOUT?

start flume:
flume dump 'syslogTcp(5140)'

netcat into it:
echo "<37>hello via syslog"  | nc localhost 5140

- Alex 


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Alexander Lorenz
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On Feb 24, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Julien Ricard wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to understand why my collector doesn't write anything to the sink, 
> file or hdfs destination.
> 
> I'm using the cloudera release on debian squeeze.
> 
> My setup is really simple. "web7" is an agent, and it sends to 
> "collector1-flume" which should write to disk or hdfs. The collector is, at 
> this time, on the same machine than the flume-master node.
> 
> At this time, I start the collector with :
> flume node -n collector1-flume &
> 
> web7: syslogTcp(5140) | agentSink("collector2-flume",35853);
> collector1-flume : collectorSource(35853) | 
> collectorSink("file:///tmp","req");
> 
> web7 listens on the port 5140 : 
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5140            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> 
> collector1-flume listens on the port 35853 :
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:35853           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
> 
> The master says that the nodes are alive. The configurations of the nodes 
> seem to be correct when I read them on the :35862/flumeagent.jsp page.
> 
> I tried to listen to the incoming packets with netcat, the syslog is 
> correctly sending to the agent, and the agent is sending to the collector, I 
> don't understand what the collector is not doing correctly.
> 
> Any idea where to look ?
> 
> Thanks !

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