please excuse my brevity on this mobile device On Oct 10, 2012 10:16 AM, "Zsolt Dollenstein" <zsol.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > >> >
