I'm trying to setup a flume source using the exec type and using tail -F on a 
log file that will be date stamped. The docs indicate typical unix commands 
would work, but this is not working at all.

agent.sources.apache.command = tail -F 
/usr/local/apache/localhost/logs/access_log.`date +%Y%m%d`

If I use "tail -F /usr/local/apache/localhost/logs/access_log.`date +%Y%m%d`" 
at the shell it works perfectly, but used inside the flume.conf for this 
source, I get nothing.

Is there a way to use the unix date formatting in the source definition in 
flume.conf?

-- Guyle

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