https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Ignored-unique-path-file-with-crcSalt/m-p/46669#M8809 <P>Did you use</P> <PRE><CODE>crcSalt = &lt;SOURCE&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>or </P> <PRE><CODE>crcSalt = &lt;source&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>? The former, with capitals, is required</P> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:37:10 GMT gkanapathy 2011-07-21T20:37:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Ignored-unique-path-file-with-crcSalt/m-p/46668#M8808 <P>Having trouble with CRC, I set my inputs to use crcSalt = <SOURCE>, which I understood would use the full path of the input, and not the first few lines of the file.</SOURCE></P> <P>However, I still get this error: ignored file (crc conflict, needs crcSalt) for this file:<BR /> E:\Log Files\com.chexweb.library_logs_2010\ex100110.log</P> <P>If the path is unique, why is there a crc conflict? Here's a copy of my inputs.conf:</P> <P>[monitor://E:\Log Files\com.chexweb.w3_logs_2010]<BR /> followTail = 0<BR /> crcSalt = <SOURCE><BR /> index=iis_com-chexweb-www</SOURCE></P> <P>[monitor://E:\Log Files\com.chexweb.library_logs_2010]<BR /> followTail = 0<BR /> crcSalt = <SOURCE><BR /> index=iis_com-chexweb-library</SOURCE></P> <P>[monitor://E:\Log Files\com.chexweb.courses_logs_2010]<BR /> followTail = 0<BR /> crcSalt = <SOURCE><BR /> index=iis_com-chexweb-courses</SOURCE></P> Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:45:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Ignored-unique-path-file-with-crcSalt/m-p/46668#M8808 chca 2020-09-28T09:45:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Ignored-unique-path-file-with-crcSalt/m-p/46669#M8809 <P>Did you use</P> <PRE><CODE>crcSalt = &lt;SOURCE&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>or </P> <PRE><CODE>crcSalt = &lt;source&gt; </CODE></PRE> <P>? The former, with capitals, is required</P> Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:37:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Ignored-unique-path-file-with-crcSalt/m-p/46669#M8809 gkanapathy 2011-07-21T20:37:10Z