Install Splunk 6.4 on CentOS 6 with non

ibaobei

　　1. useradd splunk
　　2. tar zxf splunk-6.4.0-f2c836328108-Linux-x86_64.tgz -C /opt
　　3. chown -R splunk:splunk /opt/splunk
　　4.  su - splunk

　　/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start --accept-license
　　/opt/splunk/bin/splunk enable boot-start -user splunk (this will create init script for CentOS 6, for CentOS 7 systemd script, check below)

　　5. reboot and make sure splunk starts up as expected
　　ss -lnt
　　ps -ef | grep splunk
　　Notes: above step is same as Ubuntu 14.04 (useradd -m splunk)

　　for CentOS 7 systemd script:
　　vi /usr/lib/systemd/system/splunk.service

[Unit]
Description=Splunk
After=network.target

[Service]
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/opt/splunk/bin/splunk start
ExecStop=/opt/splunk/bin/splunk stop
ExecReload=/opt/splunk/bin/splunk restart
User=splunk
Group=splunk

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

　　systemctl enable splunk
　　for universal forwarder installation on CentOS 6:
　　useradd splunk
　　tar zxf splunkforwarder-6.4.0-f2c836328108-Linux-x86_64.gz -C /opt
　　chown -R splunk:splunk /opt/splunkforwarder/
　　su - splunk

　　/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk start --accept-license
　　/opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk enable boot-start -user splunk