If you really want to add files to HDFS, use the spool directory source which is much more reliable. If you do want to use the exec source, no point using cat since that's as good as cp'ing the file the HDFS, use tail -f rather.
-- Sharninder On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Anandkumar Lakshmanan <an...@orzota.com> wrote: > Hi Natty, > > Thanks for the Reply. > > So far I am verifying the transfer is complete or not by checking the file > in the destination or as you mentioned only. > > Thanks > Anand. > > On 07/25/2014 11:22 PM, Jonathan Natkins wrote: > > Hi Anand, > > What you're doing is a slightly odd way to use Flume. With the exec > source, Flume will execute that command, and consume the output as events. > Often the exec source is used to tail -F a file, which allows you to pipe > more data to the file and ingest additional events. By using cat, Flume > will cat the file, but then the source will become useless, because the > command will have finished, and there's no way that I'm aware of to get an > agent to start a new command. By using tail -F, the command persists, and > if you do `ps aux | grep flume`, you would see a running tail -F command. > > As for figuring out when the transfer is complete, I don't think there's > a really good way other than checking the file itself, or looking to see if > the cat command is still running. > > Does that help? > > Thanks, > Natty > > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Anandkumar Lakshmanan <an...@orzota.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am new to flume. >> >> I am doing cat a file using exec source into hdfs. >> While running it manually, I am able to see the file transferred >> completely. But still flume in is running state. >> How do I find when the complete transfer would be done. >> >> Example: >> >> My flume.conf >> >> myAgent.sources.mySource.type = exec >> myAgent.sources.mySource.command = cat /home/haas/file2.txt >> >> >> And checking the transfer is complete or not, only by typing the >> following command manually by comparing the file size. >> >> hadoop fs -ls /user/flumedata/ >> >> Is there a way to know when the transfer is get completed? >> >> Thanks. >> Anand >> > > >
