Config file ownership and permissions- Filebeat

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Filebeat Configuration

shatakshis-MacBook-Air:filebeat-6.2.4-darwin-x86_64 shatakshishukla$ vi filebeat.yml shatakshis-MacBook-Air:filebeat-6.2.4-darwin-x86_64 shatakshishukla$ sudo ./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml -d "publish" Password: Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("filebeat.yml") must be owned by the beat user (uid=0) or root shatakshis-MacBook-Air:filebeat-6.2.4-darwin-x86_64 shatakshishukla$ chown 501 filebeat.yml shatakshis-MacBook-Air:filebeat-6.2.4-darwin-x86_64 shatakshishukla$ sudo ./filebeat -e -c filebeat.yml -d "publish" Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("filebeat.yml") must be owned by the beat user (uid=0) or root shatakshis-MacBook-Air:filebeat-6.2.4-darwin-x86_64 shatakshishukla$ chown 0 filebeat.yml chown: filebeat.yml: Operation not permitted shatakshis-MacBook-Air:filebeat-6.2.4-darwin-x86_64 shatakshishukla$

shows operation denied

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What is the question? The error message explains it pretty well:

 error loading config file: config file ("filebeat.yml") must be owned by the beat user (uid=0) or root
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Thanks for the consideration

It would be of great help if you could help me with this .

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As it states in the error message, you need to change the owner of the file.

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How ?

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Best use chown

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