https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-are-the-possible-return-values-from-the-Splunk-init-script/m-p/11844#M730 <P>I assume you mean the script which ends up as /etc/init.d/splunk or similar?<BR /> This thing invokes the launcher (bin/splunk) and passes its return values along.</P> <P>The values don't appear to be that useful right now.</P> <UL> <LI>0 obviously is success.</LI> <LI>4 seems to suggest permissions problems</LI> <LI>8 refers to environment problems</LI> </UL> <P>The new 4.1 command line work incorporates this table:</P> <PRE> #define EXIT_NO_ARGS 8 #define EXIT_CMD_IGNORE 9 #define EXIT_FAILURE_USAGE 10 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DEPRECATED_CMD 11 #define EXIT_FAILURE_PARSE_CMD_LINE 12 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_HELP_EXISTS 14 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_DISPLAY_FUNC 15 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_CMD_EXISTS 16 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED 18 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_OBJ_EXISTS 19 #define EXIT_FAILURE_FGETS_READ 20 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REQD_ARG_MISSING 21 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REST_CALL 22 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DISPLAY_FUNC_ERR 23 #define EXIT_FAILURE_LOGIN 24 #define EXIT_FAILURE_URI_FORMAT 25 </PRE> <P>However we incorporate third party libraries. For example in some circumstances openssl (how the splunk executable communicates with splunkd) will exit(2) on its own. Compiling a complete list right now is not likely to be useful.</P> <P>Instead I would suggest:</P> <OL> <LI>Try launching splunk yourself, ideally with the same user that the script does, or run the script yourself (sh -x -v /etc/init.d/splunk start) to see what happens.</LI> <LI>Review $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd_stderr.log and splunkd.log</LI> </OL> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:07:53 GMT jrodman 2010-04-21T02:07:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-are-the-possible-return-values-from-the-Splunk-init-script/m-p/11843#M729 <P>I have a Splunk forwarder instance that appears to be returning a value of 2 during start up. </P> <P>I am curious as to what the possible return values are for the init script and what they mean.</P> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:06:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-are-the-possible-return-values-from-the-Splunk-init-script/m-p/11843#M729 JHill 2010-04-20T23:06:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-are-the-possible-return-values-from-the-Splunk-init-script/m-p/11844#M730 <P>I assume you mean the script which ends up as /etc/init.d/splunk or similar?<BR /> This thing invokes the launcher (bin/splunk) and passes its return values along.</P> <P>The values don't appear to be that useful right now.</P> <UL> <LI>0 obviously is success.</LI> <LI>4 seems to suggest permissions problems</LI> <LI>8 refers to environment problems</LI> </UL> <P>The new 4.1 command line work incorporates this table:</P> <PRE> #define EXIT_NO_ARGS 8 #define EXIT_CMD_IGNORE 9 #define EXIT_FAILURE_USAGE 10 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DEPRECATED_CMD 11 #define EXIT_FAILURE_PARSE_CMD_LINE 12 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_HELP_EXISTS 14 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_DISPLAY_FUNC 15 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_CMD_EXISTS 16 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED 18 #define EXIT_FAILURE_NO_OBJ_EXISTS 19 #define EXIT_FAILURE_FGETS_READ 20 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REQD_ARG_MISSING 21 #define EXIT_FAILURE_REST_CALL 22 #define EXIT_FAILURE_DISPLAY_FUNC_ERR 23 #define EXIT_FAILURE_LOGIN 24 #define EXIT_FAILURE_URI_FORMAT 25 </PRE> <P>However we incorporate third party libraries. For example in some circumstances openssl (how the splunk executable communicates with splunkd) will exit(2) on its own. Compiling a complete list right now is not likely to be useful.</P> <P>Instead I would suggest:</P> <OL> <LI>Try launching splunk yourself, ideally with the same user that the script does, or run the script yourself (sh -x -v /etc/init.d/splunk start) to see what happens.</LI> <LI>Review $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd_stderr.log and splunkd.log</LI> </OL> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:07:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/What-are-the-possible-return-values-from-the-Splunk-init-script/m-p/11844#M730 jrodman 2010-04-21T02:07:53Z