You mean the producer?
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >>
