Hi all,
I spent my weekend building a CentOS 7 ELK (6.2.1) implementation to collect syslogs (redirecting 514 udp/tcp up to 5000). Everything in the end was bullet proof and I came into work feeling great.
It didn't last.
I have a slightly different CentOS 7 build (hardened a bit) and the exact same steps resulted in all services running but when I do a netstat -ntlp I don't see port 5000 listening.
So I ran logstash from the command line like this:
/usr/share/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/syslog.conf --verbose
I got the following error message:
[ERROR] 2018-02-19 16:46:51.171 [LogStash::Runner] Logstash - java.lang.IllegalStateException: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException: (LoadError) Could not load FFI Provider: (NotImplementedError) FF
I googled and it said that I might fix this by ensuring /tmp didn't have noexec as a flag.
I changed that and now from the command line the logstash listener runs.
But not from sudo SystemCtl start logstash (even after a daemon-reload and reboots). If I run netstat -ntl repeatedly I see port 9600 pop up and then disappear but never port 5000 which is set in my syslog.conf file in conf.d
I have been googling away and apparently people have resolved this by setting
-Djava.io.tmpdir to a writable directory.
Problem is I have no idea where to actually set this, can anyone tell me where to set it please?
I need a little help as I just don't know what to do to get the service option to run.
Can anyone suggest a way to make logstash listen from the service please?
All help is truly appreciated as I am a newbie,
Thanks,
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