title: loading file into hdfs using flume
body: <p>***I want to load a text file from my system into hdfs.</p>
  
  <p>this is my conf file: </p>
  
  <pre><code>agent.sources = seqGenSrc
  agent.sinks = loggerSink
  agent.channels = memoryChannel
  
  agent.sources.seqGenSrc.type = exec
  agent.sources.seqGenSrc.command = tail -F my.system.IP/D:/salespeople.txt
  
  agent.sinks.loggerSink.type = hdfs
  agent.sinks.loggerSink.hdfs.path = hdfs://IP.address:port:user/flume
  agent.sinks.loggerSink.hdfs.filePrefix = events-
  agent.sinks.loggerSink.hdfs.round = true
  agent.sinks.loggerSink.hdfs.roundValue = 10
  agent.sinks.loggerSink.hdfs.roundUnit = minute
  
  agent.channels.memoryChannel.type = memory
  agent.channels.memoryChannel.capacity = 1000
  agent.channels.memoryChannel.transactionCapacity = 100
  
  agent.sources.seqGenSrc.channels = memoryChannel
  
  agent.sinks.loggerSink.channel = memoryChannel
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>*<em>*</em> when i run it .. i get following .. and then it gets stuck.</p>
  
  <pre><code>13/07/23 16:30:44 INFO nodemanager.DefaultLogicalNodeManager: Starting Channel memoryChannel
  13/07/23 16:30:44 INFO nodemanager.DefaultLogicalNodeManager: Waiting for channel: 
  memoryChannel to start. Sleeping for 500 ms
  13/07/23 16:30:44 INFO nodemanager.DefaultLogicalNodeManager: Starting Sink loggerSink
  13/07/23 16:30:44 INFO nodemanager.DefaultLogicalNodeManager: Starting Source seqGenSrc
  13/07/23 16:30:44 INFO source.ExecSource: Exec source starting with command:tail -F 10.48.226.27/D:/salespeople.txt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>*<em>*</em> where am i wrong, or what could be the error ??</p>