[BIGTOP-566] Flume NG pkg init script should allow user to customize the location of the conf dir

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: general

Environment

all

• Assignee: Bruno Mahé
• Reporter: Will McQueen
• Created: 27/Apr/12 21:29
• Updated: 26/Mar/13 18:23

Description

A typical Flume NG invocation is:
bin/flume-ng --conf-file conf/flume-conf.properties.template --conf conf --name agent1

...and the corresponding invocation after installing the Flume NG bigtop package would be:
/usr/lib/flume-ng/bin/flume-ng --conf-file /etc/flume-ng/conf/flume.conf --conf /etc/flume-ng/conf --name agent

The Flume NG init script, installed as part of Bigtop Flume NG, allows us to modify:
1) the --conf-file value (via FLUME_CONF_FILE)
2) the --name value (via FLUME_AGENT_NAME)

...but not the --conf value. So the user loses some flexibility when using Bigtop Flume NG over Apache Flume NG.

I recommend that the /etc/init.d/flume-ng-agent script be modified to allow the user to set FLUME_CONF_DIR. That is, in this init script, please change this:
FLUME_CONF_DIR=/etc/flume-ng/conf
..to this:
FLUME_CONF_DIR=${FLUME_CONF_DIR:-/etc/flume-ng/conf}