https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-was-the-Splunk-systemd-service-not-created/m-p/216010#M42497 <P>I also had this problem. After changing permissions on /opt/splunk to the splunk user (if necessary), type: /opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start -user splunk, or whatever user you are running Splunk under.</P> Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:00:10 GMT Exeterengineeri 2016-09-29T15:00:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-was-the-Splunk-systemd-service-not-created/m-p/216009#M42496 <P>Using Centos 7.2. I just installed this on another host with same OS and it created a service in /etc/init.d<BR /> This host is not created the service to start.</P> Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:53:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-was-the-Splunk-systemd-service-not-created/m-p/216009#M42496 tvernick 2016-09-28T17:53:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-was-the-Splunk-systemd-service-not-created/m-p/216010#M42497 <P>I also had this problem. After changing permissions on /opt/splunk to the splunk user (if necessary), type: /opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start -user splunk, or whatever user you are running Splunk under.</P> Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:00:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-was-the-Splunk-systemd-service-not-created/m-p/216010#M42497 Exeterengineeri 2016-09-29T15:00:10Z