Uninstall Splunk
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Uninstall Splunk
Use your local package management commands to uninstall Splunk. In most cases, files not originally installed by the package will be retained. This usually means your configuration and index files, which are under the same directory (default /opt/splunk) as the rest of the installation by default.
RedHat Linux
# rpm --e splunk-2.1-0
Debian Linux
# dpkg -r splunk
Solaris
# pkgrm splunk
FreeBSD
# pkg_delete splunk
In most cases, files not originally installed by the rpm package will be retained. This usually means the configuration and index files, which are under the same directory (default ///opt/splunk) as the rest of the installation by default.
Manual uninstall
If you can't use package management commands, these commands will remove the installed components except for any init scripts that have been created.
- First, find and kill any process with "splunk" in its name.
- For Linux and Solaris:
kill -9 `ps -ef | grep splunk | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2;}'` - For FreeBSD and Mac OS:
kill -9 `ps ax | grep splunk | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1;}'`
- For Linux and Solaris:
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rm -rf /opt/splunk (or wherever you installed Splunk)
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rm -rf /opt/splunkdata(if a datastore or indexes outside the top-level directory exist)
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userdel splunk
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groupdel splunk
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.0 , 3.0.1 , 3.0.2 , 3.1 , 3.1.1 , 3.1.2 , 3.1.3 , 3.1.4 View the Article History for its revisions.