When I added it to the startup scripts I tried both combinations (as root user and as splunk).
Regardless of what I did both scenarios yielded the same outcome.
I believe that if it was a permissions issue, and I were to run splunk start splunkweb as root, it would start as expected. No matter which user I use, the first time I run splunk start splunkweb it renders in the error above. As I explained above, if this is followed by the same command immediately after, the service starts correctly.
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