Sounds like https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FlUME-1425  ?

Brock

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Sadananda Hegde <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a scenario where in the client application is continuously pushing
> xml messages. Actually the application is writing these messages to files
> (new files; same directory). So we will be keep getting new files throughout
> the day. I am trying to configure Flume agents on these applcation servers
> (4 of them) to pick up the new data and transfer them to HDFS on a hadoop
> cluster. How should I configure my source to pick up new files (and exclude
> the files that have been processed already)? I don't think Exec source with
> tail  -F will work in this scenario because data is not getting added to
> existing files; rather new files get created.
>
> Thank you very much for your time and support.
>
> Sadu



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