# File input does not work with anything in "/var/log/elasticsearch/"
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-does-not-work-with-anything-in-var-log-elasticsearch/188326
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 1, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-does-not-work-with-anything-in-var-log-elasticsearch/188326 "2019-07-01T13:28:09Z")
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### Author:  [@YvorL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YvorL)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-does-not-work-with-anything-in-var-log-elasticsearch/188326/1 "2019-07-01T13:28:09Z")
Hi!
I'm trying to ingest the logs for Logstash and Elasticsearch (anything above "INFO") which is working great for Logstash logs but it won't register any file in the ES log folder. While I see that it should be doing it (No sincedb\_path set, generating one based on the "path" setting...) but it skips every file from the ES path which I see when I check the ".sincedb\_" file. I'm pretty sure that permission isn't an issue since I set up another folder with the same perms and it was read properly. I tried several configurations, when I only included one file from that path, an empty "sincedb" file..
Any suggestions?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/file-input-does-not-work-with-anything-in-var-log-elasticsearch/188326/2 "2019-07-29T13:28:21Z")
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