this might be a good case for a systemd path unit or inotify if you're not on a systemd-based system; rather than having heka spin up the input, you could spin up a heka instance when the target files exist
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Rob Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > I could maybe be convinced, but I'm leaning negative on this one. > Logstreamer is already a pretty complicated feature, with a lot of fiddly > code. I'm loathe to add yet more features / complexity unless the win is > big. It doesn't seem to terribly unreasonable for users to create an empty > folder on the machine in question. > > -r > > > > On 01/01/2016 02:55 PM, Eric LEMOINE wrote: > >> Hi >> >> First of all thank you for Heka! >> >> The logstreamer plugin fails to initialize with "lstat /var/log/foo: >> no such file or directory" if the log directory doesn't exist. >> >> In my case I would like the logstreamer plugin to do nothing if the >> log directory doesn't exist. And I'd like it to "wake up" and start >> processing logs when it detects that the log directory now exists and >> includes log files. It's like having Heka adapt to its environment. >> >> Untested but this is the kind of patch I am thinking of: >> < >> https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka/compare/dev...elemoine:logstreamer >> >. >> >> What do you think? Would that behaviour make sense to you? >> >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> Heka mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/heka >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Heka mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/heka >
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