# Filebeat 5.1.1 running on Red Hat 5 Enterprise

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-1-1-running-on-red-hat-5-enterprise/71409>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-1-1-running-on-red-hat-5-enterprise/71409 "2017-01-12T16:40:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![hailaeos.troy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hailaeos.troy/32/12817_2.png) [@hailaeos.troy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hailaeos.troy)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-1-1-running-on-red-hat-5-enterprise/71409/1 "2017-01-12T16:40:48Z")

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We have a number of Red Hat 5 machines and wanted to run filebeat 1.3 and 5.1 but everywhere I looked the answer is no. Turns out the filebeat-god wrapper is what doesn't work.  
Its a hack job dont judge also if this helps anyone out then "schweet"

This is my solution that we are using:

1. Download filebeat\*.rpm in our case its the 32 bit version this works with 64 bit too
2. rpm --delsign filebeat-5.1.1-i686.rpm
3. yum localinstall --nogpgcheck filebeat-5.1.1-i686.rpm
4. ln -s /usr/share/filebeat/bin/filebeat /usr/bin/filebeat
5. create the init script to start filebeat up  
vim /etc/init.d/filebeat # dont forget to make it runable chmod +x /etc/init.d/filebeat

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```
#!/bin/bash
# filebeat custom daemon

DAEMON_PATH="/usr/bin/filebeat"

DAEMON=filebeat
DAEMONOPTS="-c /etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml"

NAME=filebeat
DESC="Filebeat 1.3 32/64 bit rhel5"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

case "$1" in
start)
    printf "%-50s" "Starting $NAME..."
    #cd $DAEMON_PATH
    PID=`$DAEMON $DAEMONOPTS > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!`
    #echo "Saving PID" $PID " to " $PIDFILE
        if [-z $PID]; then
            printf "%s\n" "Fail"
        else
            echo $PID > $PIDFILE
            printf "%s\n" "Ok"
        fi
;;
status)
        printf "%-50s" "Checking $NAME..."
        if [-f $PIDFILE]; then
            PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
            if [-z "`ps axf | grep ${PID} | grep -v grep`"]; then
                printf "%s\n" "Process dead but pidfile exists"
            else
                echo "Running"
            fi
        else
            printf "%s\n" "Service not running"
        fi
;;
stop)
        printf "%-50s" "Stopping $NAME"
            PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
            #cd $DAEMON_PATH
        if [-f $PIDFILE]; then
            kill -HUP $PID
            printf "%s\n" "Ok"
            rm -f $PIDFILE
        else
            printf "%s\n" "pidfile not found"
        fi
;;

restart)
      $0 stop
      $0 start
;;

*)
        echo "Usage: $0 {status|start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac
```

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**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-1-1-running-on-red-hat-5-enterprise/71409/2 "2017-01-16T15:11:58Z")

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@hailaeos.troy Thanks a lot for sharing this.

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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:** [February 2, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-5-1-1-running-on-red-hat-5-enterprise/71409/3 "2017-02-02T16:40:51Z")

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