Pre-requisites

• install hadoop-libhdfs
• set environment variable CLASSPATH depending on your libhdfs installed path， more details:http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/omhdfs.html

Rsyslog v8

add Centos repository for rsyslog

cd /etc/yum.repo.d
wget http://rpms.adiscon.com/v8-stable/rsyslog.repo
sudo yum update

then install rsyslog-v8

sudo yum list rsyslog
sudo yum install rsyslog

Building and installing sendhdfs

make
mv sendhdfs /usr/local/bin

Sendhdfs configuration

two ways to configure sendhdfs:

obtain parameters from command lines, you can get more details by typing option "-h", namely help documentation

configure your set by modifying sendhdfs.conf

Rsyslog configuration

/etc/rsyslog.conf configuration directive:

At the start:

$ModLoad omprog

After the very last line:

$ActionOMProgBinary /usr/local/bin/sendhdfs
*.* :omprog:;cee_enhanced

Check configuration

rsyslogd -f /etc/rsyslog.conf -N1