Thanks. There are no special characters. However, I have noticed that the "Waiting for web server at http://[random chars]:8000 to be available..." message does not impact availability on localhost. The message "WARNING: web interface does not seem to be available!" displays. During the entire period that it displays, I can verify that Splunk Web is available at http://localhost:8000. It seems strange to get a message that the web interface is likely not available while it is still available on localhost. It does, still, achieve the desire effect. Is this normal system behavior? A couple additional details: (1) I am running Splunk as root. (2) the web.conf file has rw permissions by root. (3) restarting splunk via "/opt/splunk/bin# ./splunk restart" command. (3) this splunk instance is running everything on a single server. (4) no other conf files have been created or modified other than the web.conf file in the /system/local directory.
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