Did you try splitting this configuration into agent and collector? And also change agent to something else in the collector conf.
Regards, Prashanth. From: Suhas Satish [mailto:suhas.sat...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:46 AM To: user@flume.apache.org; dev Subject: Re: flume 1.4.0 avro source/sink with hdfs sink configuration - no hdfs files created This is my launch cmd - ../bin/flume-ng agent --conf ./ -f flume-avro.conf -Dflume.root.logger=DEBUG,LOGFILE -n agent & Cheers, Suhas. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Suhas Satish <suhas.sat...@gmail.com<mailto:suhas.sat...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Suhas Satish <suhas.sat...@gmail.com<mailto:suhas.sat...@gmail.com>> wrote: up the following flume top I find this in the log file - 11 Sep 2013 20:06:15,723 ERROR [conf-file-poller-0] (org.apache.flume.node.AbstractConfigurationProvider.loadSinks:432) - Sink hdfs-sink has been removed due to an error during configuration Can you point out what the error is? Thanks, Suhas. ______________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer:This email and any attachments are sent in strictest confidence for the sole use of the addressee and may contain legally privileged, confidential, and proprietary data. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender by replying promptly to this email and then delete and destroy this email and any attachments without any further use, copying or forwarding