# CONF\_FILE setting is no longer supported

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conf-file-setting-is-no-longer-supported/40333>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 28, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conf-file-setting-is-no-longer-supported/40333 "2016-01-28T07:58:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ekovacs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ekovacs/32/8602_2.png) [@ekovacs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ekovacs)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conf-file-setting-is-no-longer-supported/40333/9 "2016-03-22T13:26:53Z")

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Hi!  
Same thing happened to me.

For me the solution was to go to  
`/etc/sysconfig`  
folder and comment out the line which had `CONF_FILE` in it.

I also shared this solution on the github issue:

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/16306#issuecomment-199811284>

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