# Auditbeat service is not starting in Centos

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-service-is-not-starting-in-centos/262531>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** auditbeat\
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-service-is-not-starting-in-centos/262531 "2021-01-28T16:25:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sivapriya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sivapriya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sivapriya)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-service-is-not-starting-in-centos/262531/1 "2021-01-28T16:25:32Z")

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**Host Info** :

I am running the service as a root user

{"system\_info": {"host": {"architecture":"i686","boot\_time":"2020-03-06T07:06:21Z","containerized":false,"name","kernel\_version":"2.6.32-754.27.1.el6.i686","mac":["00:25:90:e3:cd:7a","00:25:90:e3:cd:7b"],"os":{"family":"redhat","platform":"centos","name":"CentOS","version":"6.10 (Final)","major":6,"minor":10,"patch":0,"codename":"Final"},"timezone":"GMT","timezone\_offset\_sec":0,"id":"de7d8645073bac716f8e0ddc00000022"}}}

Its throwing me an error

Exiting: 1 error: unable to create DNS sniffer: failed creating af\_packet sniffer: setsockopt packet\_rx\_ring: cannot allocate memory

Exiting: 1 error: unable to create DNS sniffer: failed creating af\_packet sniffer: setsockopt packet\_rx\_ring: cannot allocate memory

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auditbeat-service-is-not-starting-in-centos/262531/2 "2021-02-25T18:25:40Z")

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