# Curator example not taking action & w/error **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\ **Created:** [March 27, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-example-not-taking-action-w-error/125766 "2018-03-27T13:46:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![gigabyte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ec9cab/32.png) [@gigabyte](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gigabyte)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-example-not-taking-action-w-error/125766/4 "2018-03-27T14:29:30Z")
The guide as mentioned isn't exactly clear, figured it out. Appreciate the quick glance/analysis and catch on the permissions. Using the below example here on this forum, there's not a peep about permissions, just like it's supposed to work. Will go off and investigate/figure out permissions. Thank you. > [@Creating Cron job for Close and Delete indices from elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-cron-job-for-close-and-delete-indices-from-elasticsearch/86614): > > I would like to share my Cron job for Close and Delete indices from elasticsearch 5.4 First installed elasticsearch-curator then created /etc/elasticsearch-curator folder for config files Created below files on that folder curator.yml (config file) action\_close.yml (close action file) action\_delete.yml (delete action file) curator\_cron.sh (shell script for cron job) curator.yml client: hosts: - 127.0.0.1 port: 9200 url\_prefix: use\_ssl: False certificate: client\_cert: client\_key: s… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-example-not-taking-action-w-error/125766)._