# Logstash 6.8.4 crashing while scheduling job from crontab

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**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-8-4-crashing-while-scheduling-job-from-crontab/216766 "2020-01-28T07:16:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rajnish\_Giri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rajnish_giri/32/61516_2.png) [@Rajnish\_Giri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rajnish_Giri)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-8-4-crashing-while-scheduling-job-from-crontab/216766/1 "2020-01-28T07:16:41Z")

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I am pulling data from multiple s3 buckets using s3 input plugin. While I am running job manually from terminal, it executed successfully, but when i schedule it to run from crontab it's throwing following error:

[2020-01-28T02:01:06,410][FATAL][logstash.runner] An unexpected error occurred! {:error=\>#\<Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe - \>, :backtrace=\>["org/jruby/RubyIO.java:1472:in `write'", "org/jruby/RubyIO.java:1429:in `write'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/logstash-output-stdout-3.1.4/lib/logstash/outputs/stdout.rb:43:in `block in multi_receive_encoded'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1792:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/logstash-output-stdout-3.1.4/lib/logstash/outputs/stdout.rb:42:in `multi_receive_encoded'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/outputs/base.rb:87:in `multi\_receive'", "org/logstash/config/ir/compiler/OutputStrategyExt.java:118:in `multi_receive'", "org/logstash/config/ir/compiler/AbstractOutputDelegatorExt.java:101:in `multi\_receive'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:390:in `block in output_batch'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1419:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:389:in `output_batch'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:341:in `worker\_loop'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:304:in `block in start\_workers'"]}  
[2020-01-28T02:01:06,510][ERROR][org.logstash.Logstash] java.lang.IllegalStateException: Logstash stopped processing because of an error: (EPIPE) Broken pipe -

Rajnish

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**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-6-8-4-crashing-while-scheduling-job-from-crontab/216766/2 "2020-02-25T07:16:44Z")

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