Logstash 5.2: init script for manual tar.gz installation?

Elastic Stack Logstash
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Hi,

I installed logstash 5.2 from the tar package on redhat 6.7. I did not use the installer, because an older version of the elk stack with installed services for logstash, etc. are already present at the system.

I need them to run in parallel for a while.

I searched, but did not find an initscript for logstash 5.2 yet.
I need to run it as service name logstash5. It must not interact with the currently running logstash 1.5.

How can I achieve my aim?
Thanks, Andreas

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Check out this discussion

Looks like you simply use
start logstash
stop logstash
status logstash
restart logstash

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  1. Edit startup.options (it will be in the config directory where you installed/uncompressed the tar.gz file)
  2. Be sure to change SERVICE_NAME to be "logstash5" Ensure all other settings are correct
  3. Run $LS_HOME/bin/system-install /path/to/startup.options sysv with sudo or as the root user, where $LS_HOME is the directory where you installed/uncompressed the tar.gz file.

This will generate a SysV init script named logstash5.

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Thanks, that was the solution.

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