What are the best practices around the Splunk Init file?

[daniel333]

All,

So I set my ulimits, agree to licensing and kill THP with my Splunk init script. Any other best practices, recommendations or fun tweaks you do with your init script?

[deepashri_123 · Accepted solution]

Hey@daniel333,

Try using splunk as non-root user:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.2/Admin/ConfigureSplunktostartatboottime

Let me know if this helps!!

[richgalloway]

Start Splunk as a user other than root.

[sloshburch]

Add splunk and btool to the path!