topic Light Forwarder for Linux - Autostart in Getting Data In

Light Forwarder for Linux - Autostart

beaunewcomb — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:28:36 GMT

Is there a command line switch for the light forwarder (much like the one for splunkd) that will install the service in init.d for automatic starting with the server?

Re: Light Forwarder for Linux - Autostart

Lowell — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:30:17 GMT

See the following docs page:

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/ConfigureSplunktostartatboottime

BTW, I do like to make a minor change to Splunk's default boot script that makes the startup work in a few extra situations. (For example, after a splunk upgrade)

By default, you'll see a line that looks like this (your's may be slightly different depending on what user splunkd is running as on your system, on mine the user is simply called "splunk"). This is in the splunk_start() function.

I change this line:

su splunk -c "\"$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk\" start"

to the following:

su splunk -c "\"$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk\" start --accept-license --answer-yes"

This ensures that any migration questions or license acceptance issues do not prevent splunk from starting up on an unattended boot. There are other startup options as well, but these are the two that I've found to work best for us.

Re: Light Forwarder for Linux - Autostart

beaunewcomb — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:50:56 GMT

Thanks for your response, but that's for the splunk server. I'm looking for the forwarder.

Re: Light Forwarder for Linux - Autostart

Lowell — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:48:07 GMT

It's the same for both.