# Logstash 5.0.0beta1 never goes to background

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 24, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433 "2016-09-24T09:14:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![himbeere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@himbeere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/himbeere)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433/1 "2016-09-24T09:14:27Z")

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Hello.

I'm trying to persuade logstash 5 to run in the background but i can't do it. My start command is:

`bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/ -l /var/log/logstash/ --log.level info -e ""`

Logstash starts fine but stays in the foreground. What am i doing wrong?

thanks and cheers

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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:** [September 25, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433/2 "2016-09-25T06:15:13Z")

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How are you calling that command?

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**Author:** ![himbeere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@himbeere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/himbeere)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433/3 "2016-09-25T10:51:53Z")

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Hi Mark.

Thanks for your answer. I'm calling that command from within a init script with start-stop-daemon. Also i noted the "agent" command is gone. The logstash site still says: 3. Run bin/logstash agent -f logstash.conf.

cheers  
t.

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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:** [September 25, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433/4 "2016-09-25T10:58:55Z")

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> [@himbeere](#):
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> The logstash site still says: 3. Run bin/logstash agent -f logstash.conf.

Where is that?

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**Author:** ![himbeere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/db5fbb/32.png) [@himbeere](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/himbeere)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433/5 "2016-09-25T11:42:07Z")

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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:** [September 25, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433/6 "2016-09-25T20:32:04Z")

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A link is best 🙂 But I know where that is, I will have it fixed.!

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-5-0-0beta1-never-goes-to-background/61433/7 "2017-07-06T04:37:00Z")

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