异常 Failed to start agent because dependencies were not found in
classpath. Error follows. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile$CompressionType

问题原因:缺少依赖包,这个依赖包是以下jar文件:

${HADOOP_HOME}share/hadoop/common/hadoop-common-2.7.2.jar
解决方法:找到这个jar文件,copy到flume安装目录下的lib目录下就ok了。