# Having trouble running Logstash as a service
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-logstash-as-a-service/79314
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-logstash-as-a-service/79314 "2017-03-20T21:06:53Z")
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### Author:  [@jcannell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jcannell)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-logstash-as-a-service/79314/1 "2017-03-20T21:06:53Z")
Hello,
I've been experimenting with logstash for a little bit now but mostly from command line. I've had trouble getting it working properly when run as a service.
Using logstash 2.3.4 install via rpm.
sudo service logstash configtest - \> Configuration OK
I start the service, nothing ever outputs to /var/log/logstash/logstash.log
I did see this thread [LogStash 2.2 start as a service does not read config file](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-2-2-start-as-a-service-does-not-read-config-file/43675)
Seems like going to the logstash.log is the way to go, but mine never becomes populated.
Trying to figure out how to troubleshoot this issue. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@jcannell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jcannell)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-logstash-as-a-service/79314/2 "2017-03-21T13:03:17Z")
Just to provide more details on what I have tried so far..
1. Running service as user logstash
2. Add "--verbose" option in LS\_OPTS within /etc/init.d/logstash
3. Verified service was running using "ps -ef | grep logstash". Command line below:
logstash 4643 1 0 12:55 pts/1 00:00:00 bash /opt/logstash/vendor/jruby/bin/jruby --1.9 -J-XX:+UseParNewGC -J-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -J-Djava.awt.headless=true -J-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -J-XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -J-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -J-Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/logstas -J-Xmx1g -J-XX:HeapDumpPath=/opt/logstash/heapdump.hprof /opt/logstash/lib/bootstrap/environment.rb logstash/runner.rb agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d -l /var/log/logstash/logstash.log --verbose
4. Changed permissions (using chmod -R for recursive) to logstash:logstash on the following directory structures:
/opt/logstash
/etc/logstash
/var/lib/logstash
/var/log/logstash
5. I run ls -al /var/log/logstash while the service is running, it seems like nothing is ever outputted to these logs? Their sizes are always zero.
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 logstash logstash 66 Mar 20 20:59 .
drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 4096 Mar 20 17:59 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 logstash logstash 0 Mar 21 12:55 logstash.err
-rw-r--r-- 1 logstash logstash 0 Mar 20 20:59 logstash.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 logstash logstash 0 Mar 21 12:55 logstash.stdout
I certainly appreciate any help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-logstash-as-a-service/79314/3 "2017-04-18T13:03:48Z")
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