# Logstash forwarder re-harvesting a particular file

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-re-harvesting-a-particular-file/60285>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 12, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-re-harvesting-a-particular-file/60285 "2016-09-12T12:03:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![shivam\_singh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shivam_singh/32/4225_2.png) [@shivam\_singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivam_singh)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-re-harvesting-a-particular-file/60285/1 "2016-09-12T12:03:31Z")

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Hey,

Logstash forwarder is re-harvesting a particular file for each log event. I have checked the .logstash-forwarder file and found that it has not updated the offset of this file which I did manually still it does not work. I have tried changing the permission of the .logstash-fowarder file that also has no effect.

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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 13, 2016, 7:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-re-harvesting-a-particular-file/60285/2 "2016-09-13T07:08:12Z")

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LSF is deprecated and you are unlikely to get any support from anyone around it, please use filebeat instead 🙂

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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, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-forwarder-re-harvesting-a-particular-file/60285/3 "2017-07-06T04:38:48Z")

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