td-agent is able to run columnify -h yet td-agent throwing err

[DivyaYash]

Describe the bug

td-agent is able to run columnify -h yet td-agent throwing err

$ su - td-agent -c "columnify -h"
Usage of columnify: columnify [-flags] [input files]
  -output string
    	path to output file; default: stdout
  -parquetCompressionCodec string
    	parquet compression codec, default: SNAPPY (default "SNAPPY")
  -parquetPageSize int
    	parquet file page size, default: 8kB (default 8192)
  -parquetRowGroupSize int
    	parquet file row group size, default: 128MB (default 134217728)
  -recordType string
    	record data format type, [avro|csv|jsonl|ltsv|msgpack|tsv] (default "jsonl")
  -schemaFile string
    	path to schema file
  -schemaType string
    	schema type, [avro|bigquery]

To Reproduce

Install td-agent and configure to use syslog input and s3 output with store_as parquet

Expected behavior

To be able to write syslog input to MinIO (S3) in parquet format files

Your Environment

- Fluentd version:
- TD Agent version: td-agent 4.4.2 fluentd 1.15.3 (e89092ce1132a933c12bb23fe8c9323c07ca81f5)
- fluent-plugin-s3 version: 1.7.2
- aws-sdk-s3 version:
- aws-sdk-sqs version:
- Operating system: CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
- Kernel version: 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7

Your Configuration

<match **>
@type s3
aws_key_id xyz
aws_sec_key abcd
s3_bucket bucketname
s3_endpoint https://xyz.com:9000/
s3_region us-east-1
force_path_style true
path %Y-%m-%d/
store_as parquet
<compress>
parquet_compression_codec snappy
record_type msgpack
schema_type avro
schema_file /etc/td-agent/log.avsc
</compress>
<buffer tag,time>
@type file
path /var/log/td-agent/buffer/s3
timekey 120 # 5 min partition
timekey_wait 2m
timekey_use_utc true # use utc
chunk_limit_size 256m
</buffer>
<format>
@type msgpack
</format>
</match>

Your Error Log

2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: init supervisor logger path=nil rotate_age=nil rotate_size=nil
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: parsing config file is succeeded path="/etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf"
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-calyptia-monitoring' version '0.1.3'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-elasticsearch' version '5.2.4'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-flowcounter-simple' version '0.1.0'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-kafka' version '0.18.1'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-metrics-cmetrics' version '0.1.2'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-opensearch' version '1.0.8'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-prometheus' version '2.0.3'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-prometheus_pushgateway' version '0.1.0'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-record-modifier' version '2.1.1'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-rewrite-tag-filter' version '2.4.0'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-s3' version '1.7.2'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-sd-dns' version '0.1.0'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-systemd' version '1.0.5'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-td' version '1.2.0'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-utmpx' version '0.5.0'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluent-plugin-webhdfs' version '1.5.0'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [info]: gem 'fluentd' version '1.15.3'
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [warn]: 'force_path_style' parameter is deprecated: S3 will drop path style API in 2020: See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-path-deprecation-plan-the-rest-of-the-story/
2023-05-23 09:26:17 +0000 [error]: config error file="/etc/td-agent/td-agent.conf" error_class=Fluent::ConfigError error="'columnify' utility must be in PATH for -h compression"

Additional context

No response

[daipom]

Sorry for late response.
Could you share how to install columnify?
We need that info to reproduce this issue.

[kenhys]

and where columnify was installed to (command -v columnify)?