With <secondary> and the path parameter, fluentd refuse to start

[christiankakesa]

When using and path parameter, fluentd refuse to start and complain with:

Parameter 'path' has timestamp placeholders, but chunk key 'time' is not configured

• fluentd v0.14.9.
• GNU/Linux CentOS-7.

Configuration file

<source>
    @type forward
    port 42423
</source>

<match fluent.**>
    @type null
</match>

<match **>
    @type forward
    
    <server>
        host host_1
        port 10020
        weight 33
    </server>
    <server>
        host host_2
        port 10020
        weight 33
    </server>
    <server>
        host host_3
        port 10020
        weight 33
    </server>

    <server>
        host host_1
        port 10021
        weight 33
        standby true
    </server>
    <server>
        host host_2
        port 10021
        weight 33
        standby true
    </server>
    <server>
        host host_2
        port 10021
        weight 33
        standby true
    </server>

    <secondary>
        @type file
        path fluent/var/log/aws_s3/forward-failed
    </secondary>

    flush_interval 10
    send_timeout 60
    heartbeat_type tcp
    heartbeat_interval 1
    recover_wait 10
    hard_timeout 120
    expire_dns_cache nil
    phi_threshold 16
    phi_failure_detector true
</match>

Error output:

2016-11-26 15:33:40 +0100 [info]: reading config file path="./fluent/fluent.conf"
2016-11-26 15:33:40 +0100 [info]: starting fluentd-0.14.9
2016-11-26 15:33:40 +0100 [info]: spawn command to main: /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.1/bin/ruby -Eascii-8bit:ascii-8bit /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.1@fluentd/bin/fluentd -c ./fluent/fluent.conf --under-supervisor
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: reading config file path="./fluent/fluent.conf"
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: starting fluentd-0.14.9 without supervision
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: gem 'fluent-mixin-config-placeholders' version '0.4.0'
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-forest' version '0.3.3'
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-s3' version '0.7.2'
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: gem 'fluentd' version '0.14.9'
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: adding match pattern="fluent.**" type="null"
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: adding match pattern="**" type="forward"
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [error]: config error file="./fluent/fluent.conf" error="Parameter 'path' has timestamp placeholders, but chunk key 'time' is not configured"
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: Worker 0 finished unexpectedly with status 2
2016-11-26 15:33:42 +0100 [info]: Received graceful stop

[tagomoris]

I pushed a pull-request to fix this issue. #1338.

[christiankakesa]

OK, I tried the github code, it works.

[tagomoris]

@FeNicks Thank you to confirm it!