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ASF subversion and git services commented on FLUME-2773: -------------------------------------------------------- Commit 3fccd241d92bc5b70d216a2111e28897cf93c5df in flume's branch refs/heads/trunk from [~hshreedharan] [ https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=flume.git;h=3fccd24 ] FLUME-2773. TailDirSource throws FileNotFound Exception if ~/.flume directory is not created already (Johny Rufus via Hari) > TailDirSource throws FileNotFound Exception if ~/.flume directory is not > created already > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLUME-2773 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2773 > Project: Flume > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: v1.7.0 > Reporter: Johny Rufus > Assignee: Johny Rufus > Attachments: FLUME-2773.patch > > > If we leave the positionFile parameter to default, > then the following exception is thrown when ~/.flume is not present > [We should take care of creating the default directory if not present ] > 2015-08-27 09:44:30,551 (positionWriter) [ERROR - > org.apache.flume.source.taildir.TaildirSource.writePosition(TaildirSource.java:312)] > Failed writing positionFile > java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/jrufus/.flume/taildir_position.json (No > such file or directory) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221) > at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:171) > at java.io.FileWriter.<init>(FileWriter.java:90) > at > org.apache.flume.source.taildir.TaildirSource.writePosition(TaildirSource.java:306) > at > org.apache.flume.source.taildir.TaildirSource.access$600(TaildirSource.java:56) > at > org.apache.flume.source.taildir.TaildirSource$PositionWriterRunnable.run(TaildirSource.java:298) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)