If you want to use a bucketed paths your events need to have a "timestamp" header which tail source does not appear to add.
Brock On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:32 AM, khadar basha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > we are using flume-1.1.0-cdh4.0.1 . we have the following configurations > in flume-conf.properties. > > agent1Test1.sources = seqGenSrc > agent1Test1.channels = memoryChannel > agent1Test1.sinks = loggerSink > > # For each one of the sources, the type is defined > agent1Test1.sources.seqGenSrc.type = exec > agent1Test1.sources.seqGenSrc.command= tail -f /tomcat/logs/catalina.out > > > # The channel can be defined as follows. > agent1Test1.sources.seqGenSrc.channels = memoryChannel > > # Each sink's type must be defined > agent1Test1.sinks.loggerSink.type = hdfs > agent1Test1.sinks.loggerSink.hdfs.path = > hdfs://hdfshost:port/data/%Y/%m/%{host}/mylogs > > agent1Test1.sinks.loggerSink.hdfs.fileType = DataStream > > #Specify the channel the sink should use > agent1Test1.sinks.loggerSink.channel = memoryChannel > > # Each channel's type is defined. > agent1Test1.channels.memoryChannel.type = memory > > # Other config values specific to each type of channel(sink or source) > # can be defined as well > # In this case, it specifies the capacity of the memory channel > agent1Test1.channels.memoryChannel.capacity = 1000 > > > I am getting the following exception. Anybody facing this issue. > > > *2012-07-26 13:07:52,002 ERROR hdfs.HDFSEventSink: process failed* > *java.lang.NumberFormatException: null* > * at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:375)* > * at java.lang.Long.valueOf(Long.java:525)* > * at > org.apache.flume.formatter.output.BucketPath.replaceShorthand(BucketPath.java:220) > * > * at > org.apache.flume.formatter.output.BucketPath.escapeString(BucketPath.java:310) > * > * at > org.apache.flume.sink.hdfs.HDFSEventSink.process(HDFSEventSink.java:402)* > * at > org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkProcessor.process(DefaultSinkProcessor.java:68) > * > * at > org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run(SinkRunner.java:147)* > * at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)* > *2012-07-26 13:07:52,003 ERROR flume.SinkRunner: Unable to deliver event. > Exception follows.* > *org.apache.flume.EventDeliveryException: > java.lang.NumberFormatException: null* > * at > org.apache.flume.sink.hdfs.HDFSEventSink.process(HDFSEventSink.java:469)* > * at > org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkProcessor.process(DefaultSinkProcessor.java:68) > * > * at > org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run(SinkRunner.java:147)* > * at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)* > *Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: null* > * at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:375)* > * at java.lang.Long.valueOf(Long.java:525)* > * at > org.apache.flume.formatter.output.BucketPath.replaceShorthand(BucketPath.java:220) > * > * at > org.apache.flume.formatter.output.BucketPath.escapeString(BucketPath.java:310) > * > * at > org.apache.flume.sink.hdfs.HDFSEventSink.process(HDFSEventSink.java:402)* > * ... 3 more* > > -- > Thanks, > Khadar > > -- Apache MRUnit - Unit testing MapReduce - http://incubator.apache.org/mrunit/
