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Windows Forwarder - Unable to rotate/delete log file. Handle open by splunkd.exe?

mcrawford44
Communicator

Has anyone run into this before? I'm unable to rotate logs due to files being opened by the forwarder. The files have not changed in several days. No new events, nothing. Shouldn't Splunk sleep or let go of the file?

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Maybe... though if you intend to delete the file very soon after it's been written and you have delayed forwarding, you may already be deleting it before the forwarder even starts to get a handle on the file.

As an alternative, you can see what happens if you set ignoreOlderThan=3d or something similar in inputs.conf - the forwarder might let go of the file entirely by then.

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ddrillic
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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you tried the special Windows-only [MonitorNoHandle://<path>] in inputs.conf?

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mcrawford44
Communicator

Won't this allow deletion of a file that is not completely indexed yet?

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