In the documentation for the chukwa agent for version 0.4.0, at this url: http://incubator.apache.org/chukwa/docs/r0.4.0/agent.html
There is a section titled Adaptors which begins: > This section lists the standard adaptors, and the arguments they take. > FileAdaptor: Pushes a whole file, as one Chunk, then exits. Takes one > mandatory parameter; the file to push. > add FileTailer FooData /tmp/foo 0 However, I believe this last line should read: > add FileAdaptor FooData /tmp/foo 0 $ telnet localhost 9093 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. add FileTailer FooData /tmp/foo 0 org.apache.hadoop.chukwa.datacollection.adaptor.AdaptorException: Can't load class FileTailer add FileAdaptor FooData /tmp/foo 0 OK add completed; new ID is adaptor_7f93516f352c4aaa08140e7b5a1d52f4
