# Filebeat-god does not forward SIGKILL to filebeat process **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [August 5, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-god-does-not-forward-sigkill-to-filebeat-process/57368 "2016-08-05T16:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidGlarkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@davidGlarkin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davidGlarkin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-god-does-not-forward-sigkill-to-filebeat-process/57368/1 "2016-08-05T16:06:11Z")
Hello, I have been having an issue wherein I send a SIGKILL (kill -9) to the filebeat-god process, and the child process does not receive the forwarded signal, causing it to stay alive. I want to be able to automatically revive an abruptly downed process, so my process manager will attempt to restart the god process. This is resulting in duplicate filebeat processes. I carried out 2 tests in which I used the filebeat-god command line startup, as well as the filebeat service startup method. All tests were run non-root: Filebeat-god startup ```auto $ /usr/bin/filebeat-god -r / -n -p /etc/filebeat/pid/filebeat-dwh.pid -- /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml $ $ $ ps -ef | grep filebeat 7579 1 0 12:58 pts/15 00:00:00 /usr/bin/filebeat-god -r / -n -p /etc/filebeat/pid/filebeat-dwh.pid -- /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml 7580 7579 1 12:58 pts/15 00:00:00 /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml 7593 7294 0 12:58 pts/15 00:00:00 grep filebeat $ $ kill -9 7579 $ $ /usr/bin/filebeat-god -r / -n -p /etc/filebeat/pid/filebeat-dwh.pid -- /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml $ $ ps -ef | grep filebeat 7580 1 0 12:58 pts/15 00:00:00 **/usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml** 7602 1 0 12:58 pts/15 00:00:00 /usr/bin/filebeat-god -r / -n -p /etc/filebeat/pid/filebeat-dwh.pid -- /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml 7603 7602 8 12:58 pts/15 00:00:00 **/usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml** 7620 7294 0 12:59 pts/15 00:00:00 grep filebeat ``` (Using Service startup) ```auto $ service filebeat-dwh start [ OK $ ps -ef | grep filebeat 7708 1 0 13:01 pts/15 00:00:00 filebeat-god -r / -n -p /etc/filebeat/pid/filebeat-dwh.pid -- /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml 7709 7708 1 13:01 pts/15 00:00:00 /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml 7724 7294 0 13:01 pts/15 00:00:00 grep filebeat $ $ kill -9 7708 $ $ service filebeat-dwh start [OK] $ $ ps -ef | grep filebeat 7709 1 0 13:01 pts/15 00:00:00 **/usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml** 7758 1 0 13:01 pts/15 00:00:00 filebeat-god -r / -n -p /etc/filebeat/pid/filebeat-dwh.pid -- /usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml 7759 7758 1 13:01 pts/15 00:00:00 **/usr/bin/filebeat -c /etc/filebeat/filebeat_dwh.yml** 7782 7294 0 13:01 pts/15 00:00:00 grep filebeat ``` Filebeat 1.2.3 RHEL 6.3 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-god-does-not-forward-sigkill-to-filebeat-process/57368/2 "2016-08-26T16:06:59Z")
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