Hi Eashwar, thanks for you help once again, I "think" I did something similar which was to comment out the "cd /opt" command which effectively does the same thing (i.e. install to the /home/ec2-user folder. My issue is clearly a permissions issue preventing me to write to the /opt directory on the target device. As you probably know Its not necessary to install the forwarder to the /opt directory but it would be cool to know how to write to the /opt directory if I ever needed to. Thanks again mate! ... View more

Thanks Eashwar, that video was excellent (thanks yromaneko!) and helped me resolve my issue. I had my public key above my private key in authorized_keys. Also i was using ubuntu (now using Amazon AMI) and I needed to chown to the splunkuser. I have an issue with the tar part now.. I'll post a new thread 😉 Thanks again for your help ... View more