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lookup tables??

DTERM
Contributor

What is the simplest way to populate a lookup table? I started creating a cronjob. However the splunk search command behaves oddly when executed from the command line. I have to CTRL-C to break the search. This does not work well with Linux Cron.

In theory, I'd like to create a (cron) job that updates a lookup table daily.

Thanks.

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Ayn
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If you're populating a lookup table from within Splunk, why not just schedule the search in Splunk instead and use the outputlookup command just as you would do with a separate cron job?

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Ayn
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If you're populating a lookup table from within Splunk, why not just schedule the search in Splunk instead and use the outputlookup command just as you would do with a separate cron job?

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DTERM
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Thanks, I'll have to look into that.

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