I'm happy that strides are being made to conform to the Systemd architecture. I noticed long ago that the automatic boot functions used the /etc/init.d scripts - so I ended up writing my own for RHEL 7 servers. You can use the following as "/etc/systemd/system/SplunkForwarder.service" without having to use Splunk's boot-start at all: [Unit] Description=Splunk Universal Forwarder After=network-online.target rsyslog.service [Service] User=splunk Group=splunk ExecStart=/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk start ExecStop=/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk stop StandardOutput=syslog Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] Alias=splunk.service WantedBy=multi-user.target WantedBy=graphical.target ... View more