# Can i start 2 logstash process on centos?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-start-2-logstash-process-on-centos/32798
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [October 22, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-start-2-logstash-process-on-centos/32798 "2015-10-22T18:09:31Z")
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### Author: ![Erik\_Parienty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a587f6/32.png) [@Erik\_Parienty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Erik_Parienty)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-start-2-logstash-process-on-centos/32798/1 "2015-10-22T18:09:31Z")

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Can you show me how?  
i have /etc/init.d/logstash running and i like to have 1 more

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### Author: ![Erik\_Parienty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a587f6/32.png) [@Erik\_Parienty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Erik_Parienty)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-start-2-logstash-process-on-centos/32798/2 "2015-10-22T19:07:49Z")

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Found it

/opt/logstash/bin/logstash -f "/etc/logstash/conf.d/"

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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, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-start-2-logstash-process-on-centos/32798/3 "2017-07-06T05:25:43Z")

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