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Why i'm getting this error???

joseph254
New Member

couldn't run "/root/splunk/bin/splunkd" "btool": Permission denied

couldn't run "/root/splunk/bin/splunkd" "btool": Permission denied

couldn't run "/root/splunk/bin/splunkd" "btool": Permission denied

Did not find "disabled" setting of "kvstore" stanza in server bundle.

Splunk> Map. Reduce. Recycle.

Checking prerequisites...

couldn't run "/root/splunk/bin/splunkd" "btool": Permission denied

Checking mgmt port [8089]: couldn't run "/root/splunk/bin/splunkd" "btool": Permission denied

open

couldn't run "/root/splunk/bin/splunkd" "btool": Permission denied

Checking configuration... Done.

execve: Permission denied

while running command /root/splunk/bin/splunkd

Validating databases (splunkd validatedb) failed with code '8'. If you cannot resolve the issue(s) above after consulting documentation, please file a case online at http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue

[root@localhost bin]#

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nikita_p
Contributor
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dkeck
Influencer

HI,

looks like you got this error on start up, make sure that the user who is running splunk got the ownership of $SPLUNK_HOME/splunk.

you can make sure with running chown -R user:group $SPLUNK_HOME/splunk

What version are you running?

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Also look at etc/splunk-launch.conf for SPLUNK_USER - if that's set to splunk but you're trying to run inside /root it'll end in tears.

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joseph254
New Member

i solved the problem is due to the permessions which was set to 0644 and i changed it to 0555 !
thank you for help 🙂

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dkeck
Influencer

Any luck with that? If it was helpfull please accept the answer, thank you 🙂

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