Logstash 2.3.3 does not run as a service on red hat

Hi,
I downloaded .tar version of logstash 2.3.3 and trying to running it as service, but it fails. My system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago).
When I am testing configuration file everything's ok:

./bin/logstash -f /var/opt/logstash-2.3.3/config/05-redis.conf --configtest
Configuration OK'

When I am starting logstash it also works fine:

./bin/logstash -f /var/opt/logstash-2.3.3/config/05-redis.conf
Settings: Default pipeline workers: 4
Pipeline main started

When I am trying to start logstash as a service it fails. I'm using init script that was used with logstash 1.5 (maybe this is the root cause, but it worked with logstash 1.5) :

#!/bin/sh
# Init script for logstash
# Maintained by Elasticsearch
# Generated by pleaserun.
# Implemented based on LSB Core 3.1:


PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH

if [ `id -u` -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "You need root privileges to run this script"
   exit 1
fi

name=logstash
pidfile="/var/run/$name.pid"

LS_USER=elk
LS_GROUP=elk
LS_HOME=/var/opt/logstash-2.3.3
LS_HEAP_SIZE="500m"
LS_JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=${LS_HOME}"
LS_LOG_DIR=/var/opt/logstash-2.3.3/log
LS_LOG_FILE="${LS_LOG_DIR}/$name.log"
LS_CONF_DIR=/var/opt/logstash-2.3.3/config
LS_OPEN_FILES=16384
LS_NICE=19
LS_OPTS=""

[ -r /etc/default/$name ] && . /etc/default/$name
[ -r /etc/sysconfig/$name ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$name

program=$LS_HOME/bin/logstash
args="agent -f ${LS_CONF_DIR} -l ${LS_LOG_FILE} ${LS_OPTS}"

start() {


  JAVA_OPTS=${LS_JAVA_OPTS}
  HOME=${LS_HOME}
  export PATH HOME JAVA_OPTS LS_HEAP_SIZE LS_JAVA_OPTS LS_USE_GC_LOGGING

  # set ulimit as (root, presumably) first, before we drop privileges
  ulimit -n ${LS_OPEN_FILES}

  # Run the program!
  nice -n ${LS_NICE} chroot --userspec $LS_USER:$LS_GROUP / sh -c "
    cd $LS_HOME
    ulimit -n ${LS_OPEN_FILES}
    exec \"$program\" $args
  " > "${LS_LOG_DIR}/$name.stdout" 2> "${LS_LOG_DIR}/$name.err" &

  # Generate the pidfile from here. If we instead made the forked process
  # generate it there will be a race condition between the pidfile writing
  # and a process possibly asking for status.
  echo $! > $pidfile

  echo "$name started."
  return 0
}

stop() {
  # Try a few times to kill TERM the program
  if status ; then
    pid=`cat "$pidfile"`
    echo "Killing $name (pid $pid) with SIGTERM"
    kill -TERM $pid
    # Wait for it to exit.
    for i in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do
      echo "Waiting $name (pid $pid) to die..."
      status || break
      sleep 1
    done
    if status ; then
      echo "$name stop failed; still running."
    else
      echo "$name stopped."
    fi
  fi
}

status() {
  if [ -f "$pidfile" ] ; then
    pid=`cat "$pidfile"`
    if kill -0 $pid > /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then
      # process by this pid is running.
      # It may not be our pid, but that's what you get with just pidfiles.
      # TODO(sissel): Check if this process seems to be the same as the one we
      # expect. It'd be nice to use flock here, but flock uses fork, not exec,
      # so it makes it quite awkward to use in this case.
      return 0
    else
      return 2 # program is dead but pid file exists
    fi
  else
    return 3 # program is not running
  fi
}

force_stop() {
  if status ; then
    stop
    status && kill -KILL `cat "$pidfile"`
  fi
}


case "$1" in
  start)
    status
    code=$?
    if [ $code -eq 0 ]; then
      echo "$name is already running"
    else
      start
      code=$?
    fi
    exit $code
    ;;
  stop) stop ;;
  force-stop) force_stop ;;
  status) 
    status
    code=$?
    if [ $code -eq 0 ] ; then
      echo "$name is running"
    else
      echo "$name is not running"
    fi
    exit $code
    ;;
  restart) 
    
    stop && start 
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|force-stop|status|restart}" >&2
    exit 3
  ;;
esac

exit $?

I am starting logstash:

service logstash start
logstash started.

But it does not start:

 service logstash status
logstash is not running

My RedHat is not connected to internet so .tar file seemed to be good option. I also added elk user to adm group which did not help
Thanks in advance for all hints!

Wy not use the RPM repos, that comes with a bundled service file.

I downloaded .rpm repo and skipped init script mentioned above. Logstash is working fine.
Thank you for hint.