correction: instead of "while starting the sink" i meant "while starting the agent".
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Mohit Durgapal <durgapalmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Currently I am using cloudera to start/stop flume agents. > > But earlier I used to provide the source& sink configuration while > starting the sink from terminal with a command like below: > > bin/flume-ng agent --conf conf --conf-file example.conf --name a1 > -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console > > Regards > Mohit > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Carlotta Hicks <carlotta.hi...@sas.com> > wrote: > >> How/where are you starting your sources and sinks? >> >> >> >> *From:* Mohit Durgapal [mailto:durgapalmo...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2015 12:20 AM >> *To:* user >> *Subject:* Re: When to stop an agent with a Spool Directory source >> >> >> >> I am not sure about your use case but I am writing about my experiences >> with flume. >> Generally you would use flume for streaming data and will not stop the >> components ever. You have source & sinks running all the time so that as >> soon as an application writes into the spool directory, the source reads >> it(as per the flume agent configuration) and puts it the in the channel >> from where sink consumes it. >> >> Otherwise, I can't think of anything other than a shell script to run >> periodically to start-stop the agent. >> >> Regards >> >> Mohit >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Carlotta Hicks <carlotta.hi...@sas.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I am a new Flume user. I have a java application where I would like to >> start a spool directory source, file channel and hbase sink. >> >> >> >> After I start the components and copy a file into the spooldir directory, >> programmatically, how do I know when to >> >> stop the components? >> >> >> >> >> > >
