Install Splunk 6.4 on CentOS 6 with non-root user

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. /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

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