This is the documentation for Cloudera Enterprise 5.8.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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