[FLUME-2473] Flume exec tail -f date on apache log - unix date formatting

• Type: Question
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0.1
• Component/s: Configuration

Environment

CentOS 6.5

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Guyle Taber
• Created: 22/Sep/14 16:59
• Updated: 06/Oct/14 17:37

Description

I'm trying to setup a flume source using the exec type and using tail -F on a log file that will be date stamped. The docs indicate typical unix commands would work, but date formatting for a file that's name changes each day doesn't seem to work.

agent.sources.apache.command = tail -F /usr/local/apache/localhost/logs/access_log.`date +%Y%m%d`

If I use "tail -F /usr/local/apache/localhost/logs/access_log.`date +%Y%m%d`" at the shell it works perfectly, but used inside the flume.conf for this source, I get nothing.

Is there a way to use the unix date formatting in the source definition in flume.conf?