topic Re: Splunk Universal Forwarder, how to set PATH environment variable in Deployment Architecture

Splunk Universal Forwarder, how to set PATH environment variable

joshuapetitt — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:30:11 GMT

I need to add to the PATH environment variable used by Splunk Universal Forwarder.

I have tried editing splunk-launch.conf and I have checked the envvars using splunk envvars but this doesn't seem to set the path.

Is it possible to set the PATH variable that Splunk uses?

(Note, I only want to setup this specialized PATH for the splunkd instance. I do not want it to be systemwide)

Re: Splunk Universal Forwarder, how to set PATH environment variable

woodcock — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:33:28 GMT

Why do you think that you need to do this? I have never had to do any such thing.

Re: Splunk Universal Forwarder, how to set PATH environment variable

joshuapetitt — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:35:09 GMT

because I need to have splunk call a specific python interpreter. The system has python 3 installed. I need to install python 2, and set the PATH so that SUF calls python 2.

Re: Splunk Universal Forwarder, how to set PATH environment variable

woodcock — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:45:08 GMT

If that is truly necessary, several people have indeed made changes like this. You should ask for exactly that, namely "How do I configure my Splunk app so that it uses a different Python version installed outside of Splunk" or some such. You have far, FAR more likely to get a response to such a question.