Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, | Page 44 Example 3-3. HTTP Source configuration |
The HTTP Source example mentions two configuration parameters incorrectly. |
Hari Shreedharan |
Oct 17, 2014 | |
Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, , Other Digital Version | Page 62 2nd paragraph |
The text in this paragraph that states that the source can block the process producing the data if the channel is full and then continue the process once the channel is no longer full. This is incorrect. While this feature was planned, it has not been completed and is not available in any released version of Flume. This functionality is being tracked on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1947 |
Hari Shreedharan |
May 31, 2016 | |
Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, , Other Digital Version | Page 69 2nd Paragraph |
The section that mentions importing the flume-jms-source artifact in your pom.xml file incorrectly shows importing flume-hdfs-sink, rather than flume-jms-source. The XML snippet should be: |
Hari Shreedharan |
Jan 05, 2015 | |
Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, , Other Digital Version | Page 87 Table 4-2. File Channel configuration |
The checkpointInterval parameter is actually in milliseconds and not in seconds, as shown in the table. |
Hari Shreedharan |
Nov 10, 2014 | |
Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, , Other Digital Version | Page 154 Configuration Example |
Immediately after the example configuration, the text says "In this example, the Avro Source writes events to four channels." when it should really be "In this example, the Avro Source writes events to five channels." |
Hari Shreedharan |
Jan 05, 2015 | |
Page 201 3rd paragraph |
In the 3rd paragraph of "Failover Sink Processor" the author says "The failover mechanism, though, does not choose a new sink until and unless the current sink fails. This means even though it is possible that the agent with highst priority may have failed and come back online, the failover sink processor does not make the sink writing to that agent active until the currently active sink hits an error". Note from the Author or Editor: |
Sheraz Ahmed | Nov 04, 2015 | ||
Printed, PDF, ePub, Mobi, | Page 206 2nd paragraph (above Table 8-1) |
The property to configure poll frequency should be "-Dflume.monitoring.pollFrequency" with no whitespace in between poll and Frequency. |
Hari Shreedharan |
Oct 07, 2014 |