There are other Tail tools for Windows: http://tailforwin32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17657
No idea if they will work with flume. Since Windows' command structure has moved towards PowerShell, I'd be curious to see if flume-on-windows would support a "PowerShell Pipe" or something like that. On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Jonathan <jonny2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to work out how Flume can monitor a folder on a Windows 2008 > server and push any new files to the collector. I have > found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6753825/how-to-tail-a-named-pipe-to-flume-windows-node-flume-node-service which > talks about how the tail function is not available, but I am not sure if > tailDir uses the same underlying structure as tail. Are there any other > options. We would like to find a solution that allows us to run flume with > as little overhead as possible, so we are trying to stay away from solutions > like using cygwin. > Thanks for you help > Jonathan >
