Hey @naisanza, I installed the splunk on the Ubuntu (WSL) and encountered the same issue and i have tried the option you have provided and it worked.. Thank you very much.
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Very valuable answer. The documentation for file precedence has been moved please find it here for the Enterprise 7.0.2 http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.2/Admin/Wheretofindtheconfigurationfiles
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