This is the documentation for CDH 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Files Installed by the Flume RPM and Debian Packages

Resource

Location

Notes

Configuration Directory

/etc/flume-ng/conf

 

Configuration File

/etc/flume-ng/conf/flume.conf

This configuration will be picked-up by the flume agent startup script.

Template of User Customizable Configuration File

/etc/flume-ng/conf/flume-conf.
properties.template

Contains a sample config. To use this configuration you should copy this file onto /etc/flume-ng/conf/flume.conf and then modify as appropriate

Template of User Customizable environment file

/etc/flume-ng/conf/
flume-env.sh.template

If you want modify this file, copy it first and modify the copy

Daemon Log Directory

/var/log/flume-ng

Contains log files generated by flume agent

Default Flume Home

/usr/lib/flume-ng

Provided by RPMS and DEBS

Flume Agent startup script

/etc/init.d/flume-ng-agent

Provided by RPMS and DEBS

Recommended tar.gz Flume Home

/usr/local/lib/flume-ng

Recommended but installation dependent

Flume Wrapper Script

/usr/bin/flume-ng

Called by the Flume Agent startup script

Flume Agent configuration file

/etc/default/flume-ng-agent

Allows you to specify non-default values for the agent name and for the configuration file location

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