[FLUME-107] Allow Flume to run on Windows

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.3
• Component/s: Node
• Assignee: Jonathan Hsieh
• Reporter: Disabled imported user
• Created: 03/Aug/10 05:39
• Updated: 05/Feb/11 16:05
• Resolved: 13/Dec/10 16:11

Description

Hey,

It was a key design goal of Flume to run nicely on many environments, especially Windows. We've violated this design principle a bit by relying on bash scripts to manage the server. It would be great to allow at least a Flume agent to run on Windows.

Related: http://getsatisfaction.com/cloudera/topics/collecting_log_files_from_windows_using_flume

Thanks,
Jeff

Issue Links

• is related to: FLUME-148 text source and tail source are incompatible with unix named pipes
• relates to: FLUME-336 Fix Tests that fail due to permissions in windows
• relates to: FLUME-339 Fix Tests that break due to windows path escaping.
• relates to: FLUME-349 Fix tests that break due to file semantics in windows.
• relates to: FLUME-338 Service'ify flume node/master for windows.
• relates to: FLUME-356 Installer for Windows Flume.