It's ok for me but I had a lot of mistakes. Maybe someone is looking for an answer so I will describe them.
In first I had that message : "Permission denied". That's really easy, you only have to give right 755 (chmod 755 file) for 3 files which are btool, splunk and splunkd.
After that, I had a big problem with libraries and a message looking like this "Error with libpcre.so.0 : File too short". I resolved this by deleting this file and replacing it by libpcre.so.0.1 (you have to rename libpcre.so.0.1 in libpcre.so.0). That problem occured for about 7 or 8 libraries.
Finally, I had an other problem. I couldn't add any conf because "splunkd is not started. You have to start it before..." whereas it was. To resolve it, you have to had these 2 lines in SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf :
[httpServer]
disableDefaultPort = true
Now it's working and you can add the configuration.
To finish, I had to kill splunk's process (kill -9 PID) and restart it everytime I wanted to had another configuration line, I don't know why.
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