https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Is-there-any-way-to-bypass-the-EULA-on-first-time-run-after/m-p/16032#M260 <P>Yes there is, and it's documented <A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Installation/StartSplunkforthefirsttime#Other_start_options" rel="nofollow">here</A></P> <P>Your startup command becomes <CODE>./splunk start --accept-license</CODE> </P> Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:10:19 GMT Mick 2010-06-24T00:10:19Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Is-there-any-way-to-bypass-the-EULA-on-first-time-run-after/m-p/16031#M259 <P>on apt-get upgrade or apt-get install, splunk does NOT stop/start it's service. </P> <P>that's fine, but if an operator misses starting it again before reboot - the whole machine will hang on boot.. waiting for you input.. with or without ssh starting up first. which leaves you with a remote machine hung and inaccessible. </P> <P>─rc───S20splunk───splunk───python───more </P> <P>if splunk has installed it's init.d to startup on boot, can we have a switch to accept the EULA? or perhaps the EULA should persist between versions (as much as possible).</P> Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:06:52 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Is-there-any-way-to-bypass-the-EULA-on-first-time-run-after/m-p/16031#M259 mctester 2010-06-24T00:06:52Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Is-there-any-way-to-bypass-the-EULA-on-first-time-run-after/m-p/16032#M260 <P>Yes there is, and it's documented <A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Installation/StartSplunkforthefirsttime#Other_start_options" rel="nofollow">here</A></P> <P>Your startup command becomes <CODE>./splunk start --accept-license</CODE> </P> Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:10:19 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Is-there-any-way-to-bypass-the-EULA-on-first-time-run-after/m-p/16032#M260 Mick 2010-06-24T00:10:19Z