On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 07:27:45AM -0600, Rich Megginson wrote: > On 08/09/2016 03:41 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: > > In working with the fluentd packaging from the opstools sig, I think > > we need to make at least two changes: > > > > - For type=tail sources, fluentd really wants a pos_file parameter to > > track the file position. It would be helpful if we created > > /run/fluentd via /etc/tmpfiles.d as a common location for storing > > these files. > > +1 - as long as the location is configurable. OpenShift typically keeps its > pos_file in the log directory (e.g. /var/log) that is mounted from the host. > > > > > - I think that the *_secure_forward plugins (which permit using ssl > > for communication between a fluentd client and a collector) are > > going to be a necessity for just about everybody, so these should > > probably be packaged in manner similar to the elasticsearch plugin. > > +1 - gem2rpm for starters. But watch out because gem2rpm will sometimes > generate too many Requires and BuildRequires which aren't really needed, and > will miss some Requires and BuildRequires, and see > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Ruby?rd=Packaging/Ruby > I'd be happy to see patches/pull requests and to build new packages. Matthias -- Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>