Deployment Architecture

Error on enabling boot-start

uptimebox
Engager

Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (Squeeze)

# splunk --version
Splunk Universal Forwarder 4.2 (build 96430)
# splunk enable boot-start
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: warning: script 'splunk' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop between service munin-node and splunk if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service splunk at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service munin-node at depth 1
insserv: Stopping splunk depends on munin-node and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
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csamuel
Engager

I've solved this by adapting the section from mysql for splunk, thus (as a diff) - this has let us migrate to a dependency based boot with insserv:

diff --git a/init.d/splunk b/init.d/splunk
index 1941f17..af67001 100755
--- a/init.d/splunk
+++ b/init.d/splunk
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@
 # init script for Splunk.
 # generated by 'splunk enable boot-start'.
 #
+### BEGIN INIT INFO
+# Provides:          splunk
+# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
+# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
+# Should-Start:      $network $time
+# Should-Stop:       $network $time
+# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
+# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
+# Short-Description: Start and stop the splunk database server daemon
+# Description:       Controls the main splunk database server daemon "splunk"
+### END INIT INFO
+
 RETVAL=0
 
 splunk_start() {
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