Splunk 7.0 ~ boot-start not working as non-root user

[mrigs]

Hi,

I have Splunk 7.0 installed on a 64-bit Linux host. I followed the instructions for enabling boot-start as a non-root user, but I am not able to figure out why it's still not working as expected. Here is what I have in my /etc/init.d/splunk file after the necessary su changes -

#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/init.d/splunk
# init script for Splunk.
# generated by 'splunk enable boot-start'.
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 60
# description: Splunk indexer service
#
RETVAL=0

. /etc/init.d/functions

splunk_start() {
  echo Starting Splunk...
  su - ${USER} -c '"/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start"' --no-prompt --answer-yes
  RETVAL=$?
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/splunk
}
splunk_stop() {
  echo Stopping Splunk...
  su - ${USER} -c '"/opt/splunk/bin/splunk stop"' 
  RETVAL=$?
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/splunk
}
splunk_restart() {
  echo Restarting Splunk...
  su - ${USER} -c '"/opt/splunk/bin/splunk restart"' 
  RETVAL=$?
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/splunk
}
splunk_status() {
  echo Splunk status:
  su - ${USER} -c '"/opt/splunk/bin/splunk status"' 
  RETVAL=$?
}
case "$1" in
  start)
    splunk_start
    ;;
  stop)
    splunk_stop
    ;;
  restart)
    splunk_restart
    ;;
  status)
    splunk_status
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit $RETVAL

Any thoughts how I can fix this?

Thank you
MT

[micahkemp]

USER isn't defined in your script, so there's no value to replace for ${USER}.

Did you attempt to use splunk enable boot-start -user <splunk user> to accomplish this, or some other means?