# How to Elasticsearch 5.5 as service RH Linux

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-elasticsearch-5-5-as-service-rh-linux/94606>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 26, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-elasticsearch-5-5-as-service-rh-linux/94606 "2017-07-26T09:36:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Beuhlet_Reseau)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-elasticsearch-5-5-as-service-rh-linux/94606/1 "2017-07-26T09:36:44Z")

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Hello !

After some tests on preproduction with rpm, i begin to configure production environment.

Problem : Elasticsearch doesn't work in root user + It's not a service (source : tar.gz)

Currently context : Elasticsearch 5.5 with source .tar.gz

I want create a service for elasticsearch. So i have editer under " /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/elasticsearch.service" :

```
[Unit]
Description=Elasticsearch
Documentation=http://www.elastic.co
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch
WorkingDirectory=/opt/elasticsearch
User=elasticsearch
Group=elasticsearch
ExecStartPre=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec
ExecStart=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch \
                                        -p /var/run/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid \
                                        --quiet \
                                        -Edefault.path.logs=/opt/elasticsearch/logs \
                                        -Edefault.path.data=/elasticsearch-data \
                                        -Edefault.path.conf=/opt/elasticsearch/config

StandardError=inherit
LimitNOFILE=65536
LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
TimeoutStopSec=0
KillSignal=SIGTERM
SendSIGKILL=no
SuccessExitStatus=143

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

So when i start it, when i show service's status i see :

```
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-07-26 11:17:34 CEST; 17min ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
  Process: 5177 ExecStart=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch -p /var/run/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.pid --quiet -Edefault.path.logs=/opt/elasticsearch/logs -Edefault.path.data=/elasticsearch-data -Edefault.path.conf=/opt/elasticsearch/config (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Process: 5174 ExecStartPre=/opt/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 5177 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
```

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-elasticsearch-5-5-as-service-rh-linux/94606/2 "2017-07-26T09:42:14Z")

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Elasticsearch will never start as root user. You need to use another one.

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**Author:** ![josephjohney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@josephjohney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/josephjohney)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2017, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-elasticsearch-5-5-as-service-rh-linux/94606/3 "2017-07-26T12:57:39Z")

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You can also install Elasticsearch as using rpm which is available from the [products](https://www.elastic.co/products) section.

Please use rpm install commands so that Elasticsearch will be installed as a service. Only thing you have to do additional is to configure the systemctl to start the Elasticseach during boot.

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**Author:** ![Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@Beuhlet\_Reseau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Beuhlet_Reseau)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-elasticsearch-5-5-as-service-rh-linux/94606/4 "2017-08-03T08:49:10Z")

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I have configure all binary ELK to service linux.

It's not important but, run soft with systemctl status/start/stop name\_soft is More intuitive

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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:** [August 31, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-elasticsearch-5-5-as-service-rh-linux/94606/5 "2017-08-31T08:49:12Z")

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