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Forums: Posted by skaven

Topics 1–20 of 37

Topic Author Replies Latest Post
Make splunk names clickable in "manage splunks"
In: SplunkRequest Tags: saved splunk manage splunks clickable
I find myself constantly annoyed that the saved splunk titles in the "manage splunks" page aren't clickable ...
skaven
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1
71 months ago...
Pre-tuned configurations?
In: SplunkRequest Tags: Array
The default configuration that Splunk ships with is completely inadequate for a large enterprise environment. ...
skaven
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71 months ago...
unattended installer in 2.0.4 ignores command-line parameters
In: SplunkGeneral Tags: install installer options
yeah that's what I want to avoid doing since thats what I had to do in 1.x. Since this is something ...
This is the second time I've had to bring up this issue -- the same thing was a problem in the 1.x series. <code> [skaven@byatis ...
skaven
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5
73 months ago...
fifoInput not showing up on "Splunk Professional Watch" page
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
No, I don't believe it's that. This is on the "Admin" page -- not on the main page where it gives some ...
On the "Admin" page under "data inputs", I see my directory montior and my tailing processor stuff, ...
skaven
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3
75 months ago...
directorymonitor not working in 1.2.1
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
Sounds like a good system. I think that both a "follow-only" and an "ignore" regex would be useful ...
Is there any way to make the tailing processor ignore files that have been rotated? For example, I've ...
Hmm yeah I think this might work. I'll try it out and see if it does what I need.
Actually -- when I did the fuser on the file...duh! The process that writes the log data to that file ...
Thanks! I'll get on that.
I'm having a weird problem with the directorymonitor after moving to the 1.2 series. Before it "just ...
skaven
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10
75 months ago...
Website: Updating profile generates 404
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
Looks like it's working now. Thanks!
I clicked "My Account", then "Edit User Profile". After filling in my information, I clicked "Save ...
skaven
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2
76 months ago...
Detailed Changelogs?
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
Yep -- I was going to suggest cvs2cl too!
I upgraded to 1.1.6 today -- working fine so far. But I'm curious as to what exactly was fixed. In ...
skaven
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6
76 months ago...
Forums: "developer" tags for developers?
In: SplunkRequest (Not tagged)
As more of us "regular joe" users get comfortable enough with splunk to start helping the n00bs, it ...
skaven
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76 months ago...
lot of questions on setting up Splunk...
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
It looks like you need to set up one of two things. Either you need to have your systems all log their ...
jdport
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3
76 months ago...
I want to index different types of data from different systems
In: SplunkAdministration (Not tagged)
It looks like you need to set up one of two things. Either you need to have your systems all log their ...
skaven
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2
76 months ago...
SysV init script
In: SplunkRequest (Not tagged)
The /opt/splunk/bin/splunk script is already very well suited to be dropped into /etc/init.d on most ...
skaven
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4
76 months ago...
splunk-announce mailing list
In: SplunkRequest (Not tagged)
I would really like to be able to sign up for a mailing list that sends out announcements when new versions ...
skaven
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1
76 months ago...
LDAP user authentication
In: SplunkRequest (Not tagged)
I'll add a request for NIS/Unix passwd authentication here as well.
khalavak
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31
76 months ago...
not all event types show after search?
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
I'm seeing very strange behavior in 1.1.5 with search results. For example, I click on a source at ...
skaven
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1
76 months ago...
Installer ignores install path directive
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
Actually...it's happening again: [skaven@i-dl385 ~]$ du -shc /opt/mpd/splunk/var/lib /tmp/splunk-cache ...
Weird...I haven't been able to reproduce this problem. I guess it was a weird corner-case after upgrading ...
I just installed 1.1.5, and as my root partition is pretty small, I wanted the splunk DB to reside in ...
skaven
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3
76 months ago...
"index a file now" changed in 1.1.5?
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
I just discovered that this was because you have to click "browse" in order for the "index now" button ...
I've got a one-off 2GB Apache log that I want splunk to chew on. It seems that in 1.1.5, the "index ...
skaven
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2
76 months ago...
"menu bar" disappears after adding users
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
I was able to get this same effect by clicking the "admin" link while at the main page. Seems to only ...
I just installed 1.1.5, and noticed that after adding two users (a "root" admin user, and a "splunk" ...
skaven
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1
76 months ago...
Sorting operators
In: SplunkRequest (Not tagged)
Currently splunk sorts by time. It would be nice to be able to switch from ascending to descending, ...
skaven
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1
76 months ago...
"splunk stop" does not clean up all processes
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
It seems that if I stop splunk wile a query is going on, processes like this hang around despite the ...
skaven
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1
77 months ago...
Segfults on SMP boxes - update from your friends at Splunk
In: SplunkGeneral (Not tagged)
hey hey! I managed to get a core file! Where should I send it?
Well that didn't take long -- splunkd died just as it finished indexing my 2GB Apache error log. I ...
I couldn't get splunkd to crash before 1.1.5 came out -- I've installed 1.1.5 and will test it.
I hacked the splunk startup script a bit and seem to have gotten it running in the "nodaemon" mode...hopefully ...
Hmm...I followed the directions with the --nodaemon thing, but that only seems to start splunkd, not ...
I think I may be getting bitten by these SMP segfaults. I'm running splunk on a dual processor, dual-core ...
erik
Splunk Employee
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12
77 months ago...
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