I see, that variable will be substituted according to the content of each event? I think that is beyond what I need.
Another question is that how to change the format of each event appendded to the HDFS file? 2013/3/22 Zhiwen Sun <[email protected]> > Hi Felix: > > do you want this? > > http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#hdfs-sink > > where %{host} is the header named host. > > Furthermore, It support arbitrary header name. > > Zhiwen Sun > > > > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Felix.徐 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm wondering if I can use some variables in the config file so as to >> specify sinks' HDFS directory dynamically according to the hostname of >> deployed server. For example , I want to set the >> agent.sinks.***.hdfs.path=hdfs://../flume/${hostname}/..., and the >> ${hostname} will be initialized as the hostname of that server while >> starting up flume. >> >> >> >
