I would suggest moving that intelligence to a cron job by removing log files that ypu dont want to be tail at the end of the day. Will make your configuration much easier.
alakshmi (Raji) Ramesh ------------------------------------------------------- Graduate Student Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA ------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, M@he$h <mahesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > We have a directory where there will be log files for each day being > written. for example : > > abc.log.05162012 > pqr.log.05162012 > abc.log.05172012 > pqr.log.05172012 > > > I want flume to tail files depending on that day's date. for example : as > today's date is 05/17/2012 , it should only tail file names which have > 05172012 at the end. > > Can we do it using tailDir? or can you suggest the best way to do this in > flume? > > Look forward for your response. > > > -- > *Thanks and Regards, > * > Mahesh > 619-816-7011. >
