# Filebeat - service should automatically starts
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-should-automatically-starts/213057
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [December 26, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-should-automatically-starts/213057 "2019-12-26T09:00:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@aolvikash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aolvikash)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-should-automatically-starts/213057/1 "2019-12-26T09:00:30Z")
Hi,
I have the filebeat running on Freebsd and started the filebeat service via "service filebeat onestart" however I want to run filebeat service automatically in case service has stopped or if the server is rebooted, etc. Filebeat should run all the time. I know we can use "nohup" or cron script, just want to know if any other options.
Any suggestions could be appreciated !!
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### Author:  [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-should-automatically-starts/213057/2 "2019-12-26T13:49:39Z")
Hi,
This sounds more like a FreeBSD than Filebeat question and I'll start by admitting that I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD. However, it sounds like what you're looking for is [https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html), specifically the part about adding your service to `/etc/rc.conf`, so something like:
```auto
filebeat_enable="YES"
```
Hope that helps.
Shaunak
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### Author:  [@aolvikash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aolvikash)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-should-automatically-starts/213057/3 "2019-12-30T10:27:48Z")
Many thanks, Shaunak, this will provide the reboot solution
> [filebeat\_enable="YES"
Any suggestion for filebeat service if service is stopped for any reason then service should start automatically.
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### Author:  [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-should-automatically-starts/213057/4 "2019-12-30T19:59:31Z")
> [@aolvikash](#):
>
> Any suggestion for filebeat service if service is stopped for any reason then service should start automatically.
I don't think this is a Filebeat-specific concern. I think you'd be better served by asking this question on a FreeBSD forum, since there might be idiomatic ways of doing this for FreeBSD that you'd want to apply to Filebeat but also any other services.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-service-should-automatically-starts/213057/5 "2020-01-27T19:59:32Z")
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