# Because glob did not work

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/because-glob-did-not-work/40047>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 25, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/because-glob-did-not-work/40047 "2016-01-25T16:52:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![yahoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/898d66/32.png) [@yahoo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yahoo)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/because-glob-did-not-work/40047/1 "2016-01-25T16:52:50Z")

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Starting logstash with --debug in Windows  
after killing logstash the log file keeps growing  
essence of the message

:method=\>"\_globbed\_files"}  
because glob did not work

only way to stop it is to kill the Windows Jruby Launcher.

Is this normal?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/because-glob-did-not-work/40047/2 "2017-07-06T05:14:24Z")

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