We were messing around with a few settings today and ended up getting a few 
messages into our channel that are bad (corrupt time field). How can I clear 
them out?

> 10 May 2013 17:28:26,920 ERROR 
> [SinkRunner-PollingRunner-DefaultSinkProcessor] 
> (org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run:160)  - Unable to deliver 
> event. Exception follows.
> org.apache.flume.EventDeliveryException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Flume 
> wasn't able to parse timestamp header in the event to resolve time based 
> bucketing. Please check that you're correctly populating timestamp header 
> (for example using TimestampInterceptor source interceptor).
>       at 
> org.apache.flume.sink.hdfs.HDFSEventSink.process(HDFSEventSink.java:461)
>       at 
> org.apache.flume.sink.DefaultSinkProcessor.process(DefaultSinkProcessor.java:68)
>       at org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run(SinkRunner.java:147)
>       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
> Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Flume wasn't able to parse timestamp 
> header in the event to resolve time based bucketing. Please check that you're 
> correctly populating timestamp header (for example using TimestampInterceptor 
> source interceptor).
>       at 
> org.apache.flume.formatter.output.BucketPath.replaceShorthand(BucketPath.java:160)
>       at 
> org.apache.flume.formatter.output.BucketPath.escapeString(BucketPath.java:343)
>       at 
> org.apache.flume.sink.hdfs.HDFSEventSink.process(HDFSEventSink.java:392)
>       ... 3 more
> Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
>       at java.lang.Long.parseLong(Long.java:401)
>       at java.lang.Long.valueOf(Long.java:535)
>       at 
> org.apache.flume.formatter.output.BucketPath.replaceShorthand(BucketPath.java:158)
>       ... 5 more

This message just keeps repeating over and over again.. new events are coming 
through just fine.

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