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Hi,
After rebooting the server when I checked splunk services were not running. So I tried to start the splunk services, but getting the below error
this command can only be run by bootstart user
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Assuming linux, and you have sudo access and your server should run as splunk.
sudo su splunk -
/opt/splunk/bin splunk start
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/etc/init.d/splunk start used to work running as the root user and we're trying to troubleshoot why it suddenly stopped working?
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I'd recommend you check splunk-launch.conf for the user, su to the user: su <user> and then run /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start and see what error messages it shows (if any) and please note I assumed Splunk is installed under /opt/splunk
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Hi,
Issue was fixed 2 days back after restarting the splunk from /opt/splunk/bin
But we always start, stop the splunk services in /etc/init.d location, after rebooting the server and when we tried to start the service in /etc/init.d it was throwing error like "the command can only be run by bootstart user". Then I started the service in /opt/splunk/bin and it got restarted. Now, I am just curious to know why it was not working under /etc/init.d ???
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is your server using systemd?
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Assuming linux, and you have sudo access and your server should run as splunk.
sudo su splunk -
/opt/splunk/bin splunk start
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Check inside splunk-launch.conf for SPLUNK_OS_USER then su to this user and start the Splunk service
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