# Can't get past first base with Logstash **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [February 22, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-past-first-base-with-logstash/76034 "2017-02-22T12:54:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joe4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Joe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe4)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-past-first-base-with-logstash/76034/1 "2017-02-22T12:54:50Z")
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](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](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](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![Joe4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@Joe4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe4)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-past-first-base-with-logstash/76034/2 "2017-02-22T12:57:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-get-past-first-base-with-logstash/76034/3 "2017-03-22T12:58:08Z")
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