Well, IMHO it should be marked as a bug. It shouldn't be necessary to restart the daemon. The default user when using the free license should have the web_debug role enabled. If you don't want to enable the feature, you still have the option of disabling it via the enableWebDebug switch in web.conf.
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how come the "splunk enable boot-start" has not been updated yet?
like it or not, systemd has been standard in most distros for months now.
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