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Is it possible to run flume agent in multiple terminals with different linux users?

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Hello,

I tried to run flume agent in mulitple services. I am getting the error given below.

Info: Including Hadoop libraries found via (/usr/bin/hadoop) for HDFS access Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/hadoop/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.10.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/hadoop/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.10.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/tez/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar from classpath Info: Including HBASE libraries found via (/usr/bin/hbase) for HBASE access Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/hbase/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.7.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/hadoop/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.10.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/hadoop/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.10.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/tez/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.5.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/hadoop/lib/slf4j-api-1.7.10.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/hadoop/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.10.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/zookeeper/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar from classpath Info: Excluding /usr/hdp/2.4.0.0-169/zookeeper/lib/slf4j-log4j12-1.6.1.jar from classpath Info: Including Hive libraries found via () for Hive access

+ exec /usr/bin/java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=4159 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false

log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed. java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/log/flume/flume.log (Permission denied) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:221) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:142) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294) at org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.setFile(RollingFileAppender.java:207) at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:809) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:735) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:615) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:502) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:547) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:483) at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:127) at org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:73) at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:242) at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:254) at org.apache.flume.node.Application.<clinit>(Application.java:58)

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Grant write permissions to /var/log/flume directory. Also you can specify alternative log file for specific agent:

-Dflume.log.file=my_path/my_file.log

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Grant write permissions to /var/log/flume directory. Also you can specify alternative log file for specific agent:

-Dflume.log.file=my_path/my_file.log

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Thank you, I try with this parameter