Flume running user

[jucaf]

Flume run as flume user, which forbid read permission to some log files. Flume should require to run as root user to have unrestricted access to all log files.
Possibles workarounds:

1. Modify FLUME_USER in /etc/init.d/flume-agent to root
2. Delete $FLUME_USER variable in line 90 in /etc/init.d/flume-agent "/bin/su -s /bin/bash -c "/bin/bash -c 'echo $$ >${FLUME_PID_FILE} && exec ${EXEC_PATH} agent --conf $FLUME_CONF_DIR --conf-file $FLUME_CONF_FILE --name $FLUME_AGENT_NAME >>${FLUME_LOG_DIR}/flume-agent.out 2>&1' & $FLUME_USER"

[jucaf]

In order to allow flume read audit.log (and some other root read only file) without running flume as it is required to add in /etc/sudoers
Defaults:flume !requiretty
flume ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tail -F /var/log/audit/audit.log

And in flume.conf
agent.sources.tailFile.command = sudo tail -F /var/log/audit/audit.log