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splunker_123
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Hi

Anyone know how to change the default log location of splunk logs in splunk indexer and universal forwarder please?

At the moment splunk indexer and forwarder is writing under /opt I want to move it to /var

Thanks

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Damien_Dallimor
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The main logging config file resides at $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/log.cfg

Further details can be found here : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Troubleshooting/WhatSplunklogsaboutitself

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Damien_Dallimor
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The main logging config file resides at $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/log.cfg

Further details can be found here : http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Troubleshooting/WhatSplunklogsaboutitself

Damien_Dallimor
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Great , if this works for you then please accept the answer 🙂

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splunker_123
Path Finder

Thanks for that.....I had a look at the file and I believe I can change the path directly

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