The client is the flume-ng agent. The agent (client) is watching for events (sources) to deliver to an endpoint (sink). http://mapredit.blogspot.de/2012/03/flumeng-evolution.html
We have a wiki too: https://cwiki.apache.org/FLUME/getting-started.html - Alex -- Alexander Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com On Apr 3, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > Thanks! In this case client is not required? > > I am new to concepts. Currently I followed the example that uses Avro as > source, HDFS as sink and avroClient as client. > > Looks like in below case source is client itself, which means flume-ng node > would need to be run on the machine where access_logs are? > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Brock Noland <br...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Example: > > tail1.sources.src1.type = exec > tail1.sources.src1.command = tail -F /tmp/acess_log > tail1.sources.src1.channels = ch1 > > Brock > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying to find example of exec sink with flume NG. It would be helpful > > if someone can provide pointers to the urls. > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Alexander Lorenz <wget.n...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> use exec sink. > >> > >> - Alex > >> > >> sent via my mobile device > >> > >> On Apr 3, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > I am wondering if there is any client that can take tail -f <log>| flume > >> > client and send it to the source agent. > > > > > > > > -- > Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/ >
