https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-daemon-fails-to-restart/m-p/150426#M97952 <P>I tried to modify the configuration through props.conf. After modification I tried to make the changes effective by restarting splunk with "splunkd restart". However, after doing so, I got the error saying<BR /> "error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open..."</P> <P>May I know how does Splunk check, register and load the necessary object files to launch the daemon process ?</P> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:54:00 GMT reynold_kwok 2014-02-14T06:54:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-daemon-fails-to-restart/m-p/150426#M97952 <P>I tried to modify the configuration through props.conf. After modification I tried to make the changes effective by restarting splunk with "splunkd restart". However, after doing so, I got the error saying<BR /> "error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open..."</P> <P>May I know how does Splunk check, register and load the necessary object files to launch the daemon process ?</P> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 06:54:00 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-daemon-fails-to-restart/m-p/150426#M97952 reynold_kwok 2014-02-14T06:54:00Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-daemon-fails-to-restart/m-p/150427#M97953 <P>Hi reynold_kwok,</P> <P>you should use <CODE>$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk restart</CODE> instead.</P> <P>cheers, MuS</P> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:18:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/splunk-daemon-fails-to-restart/m-p/150427#M97953 MuS 2014-02-14T09:18:09Z