# Enable script inline elasticsearch 2.3, unable to restart elasticsearch fails

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 24, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805 "2016-08-24T10:50:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pradeep\_Sathyaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pradeep_sathyaraj/32/11567_2.png) [@Pradeep\_Sathyaraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pradeep_Sathyaraj)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 10:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805/1 "2016-08-24T10:50:44Z")

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> POST /customer/external/1/\_update?pretty  
> {  
> "script" : "ctx.\_source.age += 5"  
> }

I got this error,  
"reason": "scripts of type [inline], operation [update] and lang [groovy] are disabled"

I update elasticsearch.yml with

script.inline: true  
script.indexed: true

So after unable to restart elasticsearch

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805/2 "2016-08-24T11:50:41Z")

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Hi @Pradeep_Sathyaraj,

> [@Pradeep\_Sathyaraj](#):
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> So after unable to restart elasticsearch

Can you please post the exact failure you get when you restart Elasticsearch?

Daniel

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**Author:** ![Pradeep\_Sathyaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pradeep_sathyaraj/32/11567_2.png) [@Pradeep\_Sathyaraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pradeep_Sathyaraj)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805/3 "2016-08-24T14:50:12Z")

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Hi @danielmitterdorfer

I found the issue in the elasticsearch.yml, I enable a node and cofigure like below and started working

> node.name: node-1  
> script.inline: true  
> script.indexed: true

Thanks for your reply

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**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805/4 "2016-08-24T14:56:21Z")

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Hi @Pradeep_Sathyaraj,

that's great. Glad that it's working now.

Daniel

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**Author:** ![maggienj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@maggienj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maggienj)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805/5 "2017-04-08T15:46:38Z")

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I'm facing the same issue in ES 5.2.2  
Did someone face the same issue in ES 5.2.2 ?

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**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, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enable-script-inline-elasticsearch-2-3-unable-to-restart-elasticsearch-fails/58805/6 "2017-07-05T22:01:22Z")

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