Its described here (thanks to my colleague at Amadeus) https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.0/Admin/Howtoeditaconfigurationfile#Where_not_to_put_your_comments I'd be interested to know why this weird behaviour was chosen. ... View more

Hello @hexx , Apologies for following up on this 11 years old thread... This is usually caused by the improper use of an inline comment in indexes.conf. I couldn't find anything in official documentation that inline comments are disallowed in indexes.conf. But maybe i just didn't look at the right place. Could you confirm that inline comments are disallowed in indexes.conf please? (and if its allowed in other config files generally or a specific list of files?)   PS: i checked v9.1.0 Indexes.conf  and v9.1.0 Inputs.conf    Cheers, A;     ... View more