https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/sh-btool-command-not-found/m-p/176181#M1922 <P>I have just installed Splunk 6.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.5 and am getting the following error when starting splunk:</P> <PRE><CODE>bash-3.2# ./splunk start sh: btool: command not found sh: btool: command not found Splunk&gt; Take the sh out of IT. Checking prerequisites... sh: btool: command not found Checking mgmt port [8089]: sh: btool: command not found open Checking conf files for typos... execve: No such file or directory There might be typos in your conf files. For more information, run 'splunk btool check --debug' Checking conf files for typos... execve: No such file or directory There was an error validating your search head pooling configuration. For more information, run 'splunk pooling validate' Checking conf files for typos... execve: No such file or directory There was an error preparing your conf files for search head pooling. For more information, run 'splunk btool find-dangling'. Checking conf files for typos... Done sh: btool: command not found sh: btool: command not found All preliminary checks passed. Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)... Done bash-3.2# ./splunk btool check --debug execve: No such file or directory bash-3.2# find / -name "*execve*" </CODE></PRE> <P>The error has mainly to do with the btool command not being found as well as the <CODE>execve</CODE> directory. </P> <P>As you can see I have already executed a search for the directory and tried to run the commands suggested after starting splunk from the command line.</P> <P>Any help in resolving this would be great, I have already tried a re-install.</P> Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:38:23 GMT michael_peters 2014-03-06T15:38:23Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/sh-btool-command-not-found/m-p/176181#M1922 <P>I have just installed Splunk 6.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.7.5 and am getting the following error when starting splunk:</P> <PRE><CODE>bash-3.2# ./splunk start sh: btool: command not found sh: btool: command not found Splunk&gt; Take the sh out of IT. Checking prerequisites... sh: btool: command not found Checking mgmt port [8089]: sh: btool: command not found open Checking conf files for typos... execve: No such file or directory There might be typos in your conf files. For more information, run 'splunk btool check --debug' Checking conf files for typos... execve: No such file or directory There was an error validating your search head pooling configuration. For more information, run 'splunk pooling validate' Checking conf files for typos... execve: No such file or directory There was an error preparing your conf files for search head pooling. For more information, run 'splunk btool find-dangling'. Checking conf files for typos... Done sh: btool: command not found sh: btool: command not found All preliminary checks passed. Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)... Done bash-3.2# ./splunk btool check --debug execve: No such file or directory bash-3.2# find / -name "*execve*" </CODE></PRE> <P>The error has mainly to do with the btool command not being found as well as the <CODE>execve</CODE> directory. </P> <P>As you can see I have already executed a search for the directory and tried to run the commands suggested after starting splunk from the command line.</P> <P>Any help in resolving this would be great, I have already tried a re-install.</P> Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:38:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/sh-btool-command-not-found/m-p/176181#M1922 michael_peters 2014-03-06T15:38:23Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/sh-btool-command-not-found/m-p/176182#M1923 <P>Try downloading 6.01 instead - it looks to me like this is a flaw in the installation package.</P> Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:14:55 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/sh-btool-command-not-found/m-p/176182#M1923 lguinn2 2014-03-06T18:14:55Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/sh-btool-command-not-found/m-p/176183#M1924 <H2>Install Splunk 6.0.1 instead.</H2> <P>I took @Inguinn's advice and uninstalled Splunk 6.0.2 and installed 6.0.1.</P> <P>This solved the above issues on Mac OS X 10.7.5</P> <P>There appear to be a few bugs with the 6.0.2 installer for mac.</P> Thu, 06 Mar 2014 20:44:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/sh-btool-command-not-found/m-p/176183#M1924 michael_peters 2014-03-06T20:44:07Z