# ERROR: D is not a recognized option

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-d-is-not-a-recognized-option/88460>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 6, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-d-is-not-a-recognized-option/88460 "2017-06-06T18:55:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![stecino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stecino](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stecino)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-d-is-not-a-recognized-option/88460/1 "2017-06-06T18:55:45Z")

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Hello,

Here is snippet from my init script that kicks off elasticsearch as daemon service on Centos6

- set 'ES\_JAVA\_OPTS= -Xms6g -Xmx6g'
- echo -n 'Starting elasticsearch: '  
Starting elasticsearch: + daemon --user t --pidfile /home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red/var/run/elasticsearch.pid /home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red/bin/elasticsearch -p /home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red/var/run/elasticsearch.pid -d -Des.default.path.home=/home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red -Des.default.path.logs=/home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red/logs -Des.default.path.data=/home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red/data -Des.default.path.work=/home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red/tmp -Des.default.path.conf=/home/t/elasticsearch-5.4.1-red/config

It appears as if elasticsearch starts

Then I get:

starts elasticsearch

Option Description

* * *

-E Configure a setting  
-V, --version Prints elasticsearch version information and exits  
-d, --daemonize Starts Elasticsearch in the background  
-h, --help show help  
-p, --pidfile Creates a pid file in the specified path on start  
-q, --quiet Turns off standard ouput/error streams logging in console  
-s, --silent show minimal output  
-v, --verbose show verbose output  
ERROR: D is not a recognized option

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-d-is-not-a-recognized-option/88460/2 "2017-06-06T19:35:16Z")

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-Des.xxx has been replaced by -Exxx

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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 4, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-d-is-not-a-recognized-option/88460/3 "2017-07-04T19:35:20Z")

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