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• Splunk does not create the splunk user automatically. If you want Splunk
to run as a specific user, you must create the user manually.
• Be sure the disk partition has enough space to hold the uncompressed
volume of the data you plan to keep indexed.
Start Splunk
Splunk can run as any user on the local system. If you run Splunk as a non-root
user, make sure that Splunk has the appropriate permissions to read the inputs
that you specify.
To start Splunk from the command line interface, run the following command
from $SPLUNK_HOME/bin directory (where $SPLUNK_HOME is the directory into
which you installed Splunk):
./splunk start
By convention, this document uses:
• $SPLUNK_HOME to identify the path to your Splunk installation.
• $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/ to indicate the location of the command line interface.
Startup options
The first time you start Splunk after a new installation, you must accept the
license agreement. To start Splunk and accept the license in one step:
$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk start --accept-license
Note: There are two dashes before the accept-license option.
Launch Splunk Web and log in
After you start Splunk and accept the license agreement,
1. In a browser window, access Splunk Web at http://<hostname>:port
• hostname is the host machine.
• port is the port you specified during the installation (the default port is
8000).
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