Monitoring Splunk

restart_splunkd showing up in audit.log every minute -- I am not restarting Splunk every minute.

the_wolverine
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I'm seeing the following entry every minute in audit.log:

Audit:[timestamp=08-05-2013 18:10:09.376, user=admin, action=restart_splunkd, info=granted ][n/a]

I know for a fact that splunkd is not getting restarted every minute.

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the_wolverine
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Per the following answer, this is a bug where the audit handler produces noise: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/8516/auditlog-restart_splunkd

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the_wolverine
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Per the following answer, this is a bug where the audit handler produces noise: http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/8516/auditlog-restart_splunkd

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