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Why is my universal forwarder reporting "INFO WatchedFile - Resetting fd to re-extract header"?

a212830
Champion

One of my servers running a universal forwarder is spitting out this message quite frequently:

02-04-2016 16:48:49.607 -0500 INFO  WatchedFile - Resetting fd to re-extract header.

What is this telling me? Each file does have a header, which we ignore via the FIELD_HEADER_REGEX parameter. Is it telling me that the header is being extracted? (These files roll over quite a bit).

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sloshburch
Ultra Champion

I imagine its just letting you know the file is being opened from the start again. Might be resulting from the crcSalt but I honestly don't know - just guessing.

Also worth noting that its an INFO log entry so its not necessarily telling you of a problem. Is there a larger issue you are trying to address and believe this to be a symptom of?

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reansh
Observer

Headers from a csv files are also getting ingested while props and transforms are defined to discard the headers as per following configs:
[sourcetype]
REGEX = Username
DEST_KEY = queue
FORMAT = nullQueue

Username is my header.

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