Can't get past first base with Logstash

Elastic Stack Logstash
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Everything fine and dandy with ELK otherwise - Filebeat, Elasticsearch, Kibana seems to work as expected.
But can't get logstash to do this first thing.

Centos 7.3 64 bit - tried installing through repository then following the instructions but the logstash systemd service doesn't open the input port - and yes I've checked the firewall.

So I decided to download the tarball and try

So:

318 wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/logstash/logstash-5.2.1.tar.gz
319 tar xzvf logstash-5.2.1.tar.gz
320 cd logstash-5.2.1

And following:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/first-event.html

[root@ahem logstash-5.2.1]# ls
bin data LICENSE logstash-core-queue-jruby
CHANGELOG.md Gemfile logstash-core NOTICE.TXT
config Gemfile.jruby-1.9.lock logstash-core-event-java vendor
CONTRIBUTORS lib logstash-core-plugin-api
[root@ahem logstash-5.2.1]# bin/logstash -e 'input { stdin { } } output { stdout {} }'

Nada. Nix. Just hangs without giving me any pipeline prompt.

Any ideas? We'd like to be able to start using ELK but not being able to begin with logstash is a bit of a hinderance.

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Oh dear - perhaps I just wasn't patient enough - now I see a prompt. Very strange - it never worked before.
Consider this case closed for now.

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