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We have seen an increasing interest to get Flume natively running on Windows (r)

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Windows

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Warning

Note that Flume 1.x is not officially supported on Windows and the following instructions are only meant to help interested parties - it does not mean that Flume is supported by the community on Windows. Please note that YMMV.

Prerequisites

Build system
maven 3x, git, jdk1.6.x, WinRAR (or similar program)

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  1. Edit the log4j.properties file too, simple change the logger facility from
    flume.root.logger=INFO,LOGFILE
    into
    flume.root.logger=DEBUG,CONSOLE
  2. Start Flume:
    flume-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT>"c:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\bin\java.exe" -Xmx20m -Dlog4j.configuration=file:///%CD%\conf\log4j.properties -cp "lib*" org.apache.flume.node.Application -f conf\test1.conf -n syslog-agent
    Explanation:
    Path to java.exe + Java related options + log4j config in Windows Uri style + Flume libs + application + config

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