[jira] [Created] (FLUME-2473) Flume exec tail -f date on apache log - unix date formatting

["Guyle Taber (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Guyle Taber created FLUME-2473:
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             Summary: Flume exec tail -f date on apache log - unix date formatting
                 Key: FLUME-2473
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2473
             Project: Flume
          Issue Type: Question
          Components: Configuration
    Affects Versions: v1.5.0.1
         Environment: CentOS 6.5
            Reporter: Guyle Taber
            Priority: Minor


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?



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