I can verify that splunk on ZFS in freebsd doesn't work. Could not create a lock in the SPLUNK_DB directory. Filesystem type is not supported: buf.f_fstypename = zfs If supporting this filesystem type is important to you, please file an Enhancement Request with Splunk Support with the fs info number listed. Locking test failed on filesystem in path /usr/local/splunk/var/lib/splunk with code '9'. Please file a case online at http://www.splunk.com/page/submit_issue Platform SplunkIndexer# uname -a FreeBSD SplunkIndexer 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 SplunkIndexer# To confirm compat6x is install: SplunkIndexer# pkg_info -a | grep compat Information for compat6x-amd64-6.4.604000.200810_3: ... View more

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.7" not found, required by "python"42 That was solved by simple ln -s /lib/libutil.so.8 /lib/libutil.so.7 Thanks! this solution worked for me as well! ... View more