https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/In-Definitive-Guide-4th-edition-mentioned-like-quot-Flume/m-p/165435#M41484 <P>Hi <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/12642/maheshmsh88.html" nodeid="12642">@Mahesh Mallikarjunappa</A>,</P><P>The Flume agent is typically listen to a logfile etc until it's aborted by an operator so that is where the"long-lived process" comes in.</P><P>For more info on Flume please visit - <A href="https://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html" target="_blank">https://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html</A></P><P>/Best regards, Mats</P> Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:39:31 GMT mjohansson 2016-09-22T21:39:31Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/In-Definitive-Guide-4th-edition-mentioned-like-quot-Flume/m-p/165434#M41483 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:45:42 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/In-Definitive-Guide-4th-edition-mentioned-like-quot-Flume/m-p/165434#M41483 maheshmsh88 2016-09-22T20:45:42Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/In-Definitive-Guide-4th-edition-mentioned-like-quot-Flume/m-p/165435#M41484 <P>Hi <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/12642/maheshmsh88.html" nodeid="12642">@Mahesh Mallikarjunappa</A>,</P><P>The Flume agent is typically listen to a logfile etc until it's aborted by an operator so that is where the"long-lived process" comes in.</P><P>For more info on Flume please visit - <A href="https://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html" target="_blank">https://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html</A></P><P>/Best regards, Mats</P> Thu, 22 Sep 2016 21:39:31 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/In-Definitive-Guide-4th-edition-mentioned-like-quot-Flume/m-p/165435#M41484 mjohansson 2016-09-22T21:39:31Z