# Elasticsearch on RHEL 7.4 installation
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655 "2018-09-07T05:43:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@msomasun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msomasun)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655/1 "2018-09-07T05:43:48Z")
Hi
I am installing Elasticsearch in RHEL by downloading the RPM.
Any suggestions on below issue.
in /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml i have made below chagne.
network.host: 0.0.0.0
[root@bdm ~]# ll
total 95576
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 97863177 Sep 7 09:40 elasticsearch-6.4.0.rpm
-rw-------. 1 root root 1263 Jan 5 2018 original-ks.cfg
[root@bdm ~]# pwd
/root
[root@bdm ~]# java -version
java version "1.8.0\_112"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0\_112-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.112-b15, mixed mode)
[root@bdm ~]# which java
/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0\_112/bin/java
[root@bdm ~]# rpm -ivh elasticsearch-6.4.0.rpm
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
Creating elasticsearch group... OK
Creating elasticsearch user... OK
Updating / installing...
1:elasticsearch-0:6.4.0-1 ################################# [100%]
### NOT starting on installation, please execute the following statements to configure elasticsearch service to start automatically using systemd
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch.service
### You can start elasticsearch service by executing
sudo systemctl start elasticsearch.service
Created elasticsearch keystore in /etc/elasticsearch
[root@bdm ~]# systemctl start elasticsearch.service
[root@bdm ~]# systemctl startus elasticsearch.service
Unknown operation 'startus'.
[root@bdm ~]# systemctl status elasticsearch.service
● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-09-07 11:09:36 IST; 7s ago
Docs: [http://www.elastic.co](http://www.elastic.co)
Process: 81330 ExecStart=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p ${PID\_DIR}/elasticsearch.pid --quiet (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 81330 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Sep 07 11:09:35 bdm.localdomain elasticsearch[81330]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:127)
Sep 07 11:09:35 bdm.localdomain elasticsearch[81330]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)
Sep 07 11:09:35 bdm.localdomain elasticsearch[81330]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
Sep 07 11:09:36 bdm.localdomain elasticsearch[81330]: at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
Sep 07 11:09:36 bdm.localdomain elasticsearch[81330]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:93)
Sep 07 11:09:36 bdm.localdomain elasticsearch[81330]: at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:86)
Sep 07 11:09:36 bdm.localdomain elasticsearch[81330]: Refer to the log for complete error details.
Sep 07 11:09:36 bdm.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 07 11:09:36 bdm.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit elasticsearch.service entered failed state.
Sep 07 11:09:36 bdm.localdomain systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service failed.
[root@bdm ~]#
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2018, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655/2 "2018-09-07T08:35:26Z")
Do you have java installed?
Also check `/var/log/elasticsearch/`, there should be something.
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### Author:  [@msomasun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msomasun)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655/3 "2018-09-10T04:38:36Z")
Hi Mark
I can't see any other file other than gc.log in /var/log/elasticsearch folder.
I cant see the elasticsearch.log generated in this server. Is there any other place where i need to check the log.
Any suggestions.
Thx
Muthu
[root@bdm elasticsearch]# pwd
/var/log/elasticsearch
[root@bdm elasticsearch]# ll
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4366 Sep 7 11:16 gc.log
[root@bdm elasticsearch]# java -version
java version "1.8.0\_112"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0\_112-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.112-b15, mixed mode)
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### Author:  [@popa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/popa)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2018, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655/4 "2018-09-10T08:14:24Z")
Try looking through the following log and grepping for elasticsearch:
```
cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep elasticsearch
```
You might be able to find some more context as to why the service failed in this log.
This could possibly be related to SELinux and setting the host to `0.0.0.0`, but I'm not 100% certain of that.
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### Author:  [@msomasun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msomasun)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655/5 "2018-09-14T06:52:31Z")
Hi Popa
I managed to solve this by downloading and installing zip file version of elastic search..
So Now , i am able to bring my elastic search by running the elastic search in Backfround.
Thanks..
Muthu
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-rhel-7-4-installation/147655/6 "2018-10-12T06:52:37Z")
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