Yes, perhaps the existing console consumer could be modified to do this? -Jay
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:05 PM, howard chen <howac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am not aware of anyone having open sourced what you describe. If anyone > > is interested one nice way to implement this would be to implement a > daemon > > that could interact with the syslogd protocol over a unix domain socket. > > Many scripting languages have good syslogd integration and this would > > probably be a good strategy for supporting logging from this kind of > > process. > > > > In the simplest way, able to tail a file would be enough for this purpose. > > Existing app keep writing to local log file, no any blocking and not > affected by network connection, and another process tail the file and > send the changes to broker. > > Scribe and Flume also have this build in, would be nice if Kafka also > support this out of the box. > > (From old posts it was said that Window does not have tail...well, I > think most people run on Linux anyway..) > > Thanks. >
