# Elasticsearch not listening on any port **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 7, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-listening-on-any-port/54916 "2016-07-07T08:25:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![qubusp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/qubusp/32/26282_2.png) [@qubusp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qubusp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-listening-on-any-port/54916/1 "2016-07-07T08:25:37Z")
Hi guys, i'd be very happy if someone could assist with the following issue. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/2X/e/ea2660939882ec5321d2cb35b9e32ba4263d07dc.png) `indent preformatted text by 4 spaces` :/etc/elasticsearch netstat -na | grep -i LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:6379 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9391 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5601 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::139 :::\* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::9390 :::\* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::\* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::\* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::\* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::445 :::\* LISTEN ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-listening-on-any-port/54916/2 "2016-07-07T08:30:58Z")
Is ES even running? What's in its log file? ---
**Author:** ![qubusp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/qubusp/32/26282_2.png) [@qubusp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qubusp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-listening-on-any-port/54916/3 "2016-07-07T08:39:10Z")
root@dev3:~# sudo service elasticsearch status ● elasticsearch.service - LSB: Starts elasticsearch Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/elasticsearch; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (exited) since Thu 2016-07-07 10:36:23 CEST; 10min ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 3207 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/elasticsearch stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 3242 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/elasticsearch start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 0 Memory: 0B CPU: 0 Jul 07 10:36:23 dev3 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts elasticsearch... Jul 07 10:36:23 dev3 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-listening-on-any-port/54916/4 "2016-07-07T08:40:28Z")
No, the ES log in /var/log/elasticsearch. The file is named after your cluster. ---
**Author:** ![qubusp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/qubusp/32/26282_2.png) [@qubusp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/qubusp)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-listening-on-any-port/54916/5 "2016-07-07T08:41:57Z")
Hi, this is empty. I enabled logging and the service stopped working. Very weird. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-listening-on-any-port/54916/6 "2017-07-05T22:37:25Z")