I came across this and tested with 8.1.2 successfully. Meanwhile, as this is dated, Splunk now has official systemd support; see Run Splunk Enterprise as a systemd service. Specifically, in Additional options for enable boot-start, a highlight panel states Do not use the following properties. These properties can cause splunkd to fail on restart. RemainAfterExit=yes ExecStop I didn't experience problem with restart with ExecStop but it's probably prudent to just use the official guide. Procedure is simple, just run [sudo] $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk enable boot-start -systemd-managed 1 -user <username> -group <groupname>
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