Hi Rajesh, You have to write a cron job, a overwrite after some time isn't possible.
Regards, Alex On Jun 20, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Rajesh Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > This is a newbie question. > > I have configured flume sink with the Rolling File Sink > > I have the following in my flume-conf.properties page > > agent1.sinks.purepath.type = com.x.diagnostics.flume.RollingFileSink > # once an hour > agent1.sinks.purepath.sink.rollInterval = 3600 > # Force cutoff at 100 MB > agent1.sinks.purepath.sink.rollSize = 100 > agent1.sinks.purepath.sink.directory = /log/export > agent1.sinks.purepath.batchSize = 1000 > > The directory fills up and is there a way to clean it up. Do I have to write > an external cron job to clean up the directory, or is there a way to > overwrite the files (recycle) after a specified period - say 6 months > > Thanks, Rajesh > -- Alexander Alten-Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF
