On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at redhat.com> 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. Is /run/fluentd directory persistent across reboots of the machine? Wouldn't the nature of a pos file require that to be useful? See https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/issues/879 for more information around locating a pos file with a log file in a directory that does not exist. > > - 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 -peter > > -- > Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at redhat.com> | larsks @ {freenode,twitter,github} > Cloud Engineering / OpenStack | http://blog.oddbit.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >