https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Problem-enabling-boot-start-with-user-parameter/m-p/57509#M773 <P>In order to use this command, you need to be logged in as root, since you're adding something to /etc/init.d/. To run this command, simply sudo to root, run it again and it'll install.</P> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:52:30 GMT mocallaghan 2013-04-25T17:52:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Problem-enabling-boot-start-with-user-parameter/m-p/57508#M772 <P>I'm trying to get splunk running as a user other than root but whenever I try the following command...</P> <PRE><CODE>splunk enable boot-start -user splunk </CODE></PRE> <P>I get this error...</P> <PRE><CODE>First-time-run has not finished. Ignore this error when previewing migration - exiting. </CODE></PRE> <P>I can see other questions here with the same problem but none of them have been answered. Does anyone have a fix for this short of manually editing the scripts generated without specifying the user?</P> Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:32:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Problem-enabling-boot-start-with-user-parameter/m-p/57508#M772 marksnelling 2012-09-12T13:32:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Problem-enabling-boot-start-with-user-parameter/m-p/57509#M773 <P>In order to use this command, you need to be logged in as root, since you're adding something to /etc/init.d/. To run this command, simply sudo to root, run it again and it'll install.</P> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:52:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Problem-enabling-boot-start-with-user-parameter/m-p/57509#M773 mocallaghan 2013-04-25T17:52:30Z