THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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We
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have
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seen
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an
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increasing
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interest
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to
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get
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Flume
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natively
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running
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on
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| ® |
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| Windows |
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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,
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WinRAR
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(or
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similar
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program)
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Apache
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Flume
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agent
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node
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jdk1.6.x,
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WinRAR
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(or
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similar
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program),
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Ultraedit+
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+
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or
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similar
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texteditor
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Prepare
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the
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Windows
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Build
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Box
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- Download
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- and
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- install
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- JDK
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- 1.6x
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- Set
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- the
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- environment
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- variables
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- =>
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- Start
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- -
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- type
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- "
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- env
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- "
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- into
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- the
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- search
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- box,
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- select
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- "
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- Edit
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- system
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- environment
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- variables
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- ",
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- click
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- Environment
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- Variables,
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- Select
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- "
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- New
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- "
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- from
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- the
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- "
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- Systems
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- variables
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- "
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- box,
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- type
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- "
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JAVA_HOME
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- "
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- into
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- "
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- Variable
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- name
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- "
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- and
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- the
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- path
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- to
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- your
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- JDK
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- installation
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- into
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- "
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- Variable
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- value
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- "
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- (Example:
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C:\Program
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Files
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(x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_33
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- )
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- Download
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- and
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- install
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- maven
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- 3
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- Set
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- the
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- environment
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- variables
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- =>
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- from
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- the
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- field
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- "
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- System
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- variables
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- "
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- select
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- New
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- ,
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- Variable
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- name
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- "
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M2_HOME
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- ",
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- value
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- Path
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- to
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- your
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- maven
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- installation
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- (Example:
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D:\Maven\apache-maven-3.0.4
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- )
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- =>
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- from
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- the
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- field
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- "
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- User
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- variables
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- for
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- (your
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- username)
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- "
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- select
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- New
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- ,
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- Variable
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- name
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- "
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M2
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- ",
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- value
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- "
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%M2_HOME%\bin
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- "
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- =>
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- from
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- the
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- field
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- "
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- User
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- variables
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- for
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- (your
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- username)
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- "
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- select
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- New
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- ,
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- Variable
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- name
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- "
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MAVEN_OPTS
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- ",
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- value
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- "
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-XX:MaxPermSize=1024M
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- "
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- Close
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- the
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- CMD
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- if
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- you
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- have
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- running
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- one
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- Download
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- and
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- install
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- msysgit
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- or
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- use
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- a
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- similar
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- program
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- to
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- checkout
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- a
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- git
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- repo
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- Change
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- into
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- the
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- previously
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- outchecked
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- directory
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- Build
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- with
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- "
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mvn
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clean
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- and
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- "
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mvn
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package
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-DskipTests
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Start a flume agent
- Edit the log4j.properties
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- file
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- too,
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- simple
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- change
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- the
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- logger
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- facility
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- from
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flume.root.logger=INFO,LOGFILE
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intoflume.root.logger=DEBUG,CONSOLE
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- Start
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- Flume:
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flume-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT>"c:\Program
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Files
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(x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\bin\java.exe"
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-Xmx20m
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-Dlog4j.configuration=
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file:///%CD%\conf\log4j.properties
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-cp
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"lib*"
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org.apache.flume.node.Application
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-f
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conf\test1.conf
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-n
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syslog-agent
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Explanation:
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Path
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to
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java.exe
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+
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Java
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related
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options
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+
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log4j
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config
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in
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Windows
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Uri
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style
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+
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Flume
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libs
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+
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application
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+
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config
Available sinks
This section will be extend from time to time. These sinks where reported in from users as working:
- Syslog TCP
- Syslog UDP
- Exec
- Avro
- HDFS
- When a cygwin installed HDFS node is available on the same host as the agent runs