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Where does batch search write temp files?

lycollicott
Motivator

I am seeing this error on panels:

[indexer01]  Streamed search execute failed because: Error in 'BatchSearch': The search failed. Unable to write temp files to disk.

Where is it trying to write? (Yes, it's Windows and I know that Windows permissions suck.)

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Depends on your splunk version but usually its here or somewhere within: C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Depends on your splunk version but usually its here or somewhere within: C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run

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jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I think its talking about the dispatch dir though:

C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\run\splunk\dispatch

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lycollicott
Motivator

Thanks for confirming.

jkat54
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Anytime! 🙂

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