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Weiwei Yang commented on HDFS-12108: ------------------------------------ Hi [~nitiraj.rathore] Thanks for reporting this issue. I am trying to reproduce it but seem cannot {noformat} [wwei@localhost]$ echo "this is a line without ending char" > /tmp/test.log [wwei@localhost]$ tr -d '\n' < /tmp/test.log > /tmp/test1.log [wwei@localhost]$ cat -A /tmp/test1.log this is a line without ending char[wwei@localhost]$ // put to hdfs and then tail [wwei@localhost]$ ./bin/hdfs dfs -tail -f /test1.log this is a line without ending char {noformat} can you help to provide more steps how to reproduce this? Thanks > Hdfs tail -f command keeps printing the last line in loop when more data is > not available > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-12108 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-12108 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: hdfs-client > Affects Versions: 2.7.3 > Reporter: Nitiraj Singh Rathore > > I tried to do the simple tail -f expecting that new data will keep appearing > on console, but I found out that in the absence of new data the last line of > the file keeps printing again and again. See the below output. For > clarification I have also pasted the output of cat command for the same file. > bq. [hdfs@c6401 lib]$ hdfs dfs -tail -f > /ats/active/application_1499594381431_0001/appattempt_1499594381431_0001_000001/domainlog-appattempt_1499594381431_0001_000001 > bq. > {"id":"Tez_ATS_application_1499594381431_0001","readers":"*","writers":"hive"} > bq. > {"id":"Tez_ATS_application_1499594381431_0001_1","readers":"*","writers":"hive"} > bq. > {"id":"Tez_ATS_application_1499594381431_0001_1","readers":"*","writers":"hive"} > bq. > {"id":"Tez_ATS_application_1499594381431_0001_1","readers":"*","writers":"hive"} > bq. > {"id":"Tez_ATS_application_1499594381431_0001_1","readers":"*","writers":"hive"} > bq. > bq. [hdfs@c6401 lib]$ hdfs dfs -cat > /ats/active/application_1499594381431_0001/appattempt_1499594381431_0001_000001/domainlog-appattempt_1499594381431_0001_000001 > bq. > {"id":"Tez_ATS_application_1499594381431_0001","readers":"*","writers":"hive"} > bq. > {"id":"Tez_ATS_application_1499594381431_0001_1","readers":"*","writers":"hive"}[hdfs@c6401 > lib]$ -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: hdfs-issues-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: hdfs-issues-h...@hadoop.apache.org