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Systemd services on Raspberry pi

bhvk619
New Member

Hello Splunkers,

I have installed splunk universal forwarder (ARMv6) on Raspbeery pi (running on Raspbeery OS 32 bit). I had enabled splunkd instance for user splunk (not an admin user) by following commands

1. sudo chown -R splunk: /opt/splunkforwarder
2.  sudo /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk enable boot-start -systemd-managed 1 -user splunk -group splunk
3.  sudo su splunk
4. sudo systemctl start SplunkForwarder  

unfortunately I get the following error:

Job for SplunkForwarder.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status SplunkForwarder.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details

SplunkForwarder.service:

 

 

#This unit file replaces the traditional start-up script for systemd
#configurations, and is used when enabling boot-start for Splunk on
#systemd-based Linux distributions.

[Unit]
Description=Systemd service file for Splunk, generated by 'splunk enable boot-start'
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
ExecStart=/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk _internal_launch_under_systemd
KillMode=mixed
KillSignal=SIGINT
TimeoutStopSec=360
LimitNOFILE=65536
SuccessExitStatus=51 52
RestartPreventExitStatus=51
RestartForceExitStatus=52
User=splunk
Group=splunk
Delegate=true
CPUShares=1024
MemoryLimit=1963114496
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c "chown -R splunk:splunk /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/%n"
ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c "chown -R splunk:splunk /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/%n"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
root@raspberrypi:/etc/systemd/system#

 


Does anyone have an idea how to enable systemd service on Raspberry pi so that splunk start automatically even with reboot? 

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Fisrtly, don't do "su splunk" if you want ot "sudo systemctl" (unless you have very strange sudoers restrictions).

Secondly:

See "systemctl status SplunkForwarder.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details

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