# Logstash init process in Debian Jessie **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [November 3, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673 "2015-11-03T21:03:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Don\_Pich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Don\_Pich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Pich)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/1 "2015-11-03T21:03:51Z")
for the life of me, I cannot understand why this isn't working. If I start the logstash daemon manually with this one liner built off of the init, it works fine. ``` /opt/logstash/bin/logstash agent -f /etc/logstash/conf.d -l /var/log/logstash/logstash.log -v ``` What am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Pich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Don\_Pich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Pich)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/2 "2015-11-03T21:04:07Z")
``` However, the init will not work at all. #!/bin/bash # # /etc/init.d/logstash -- startup script for LogStash. # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: logstash # Required-Start: $all # Required-Stop: $all # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Starts logstash # Description: Starts logstash using start-stop-daemon ### END INIT INFO set -e NAME=logstash DESC="Logstash Daemon" DEFAULT=/etc/default/$NAME if [`id -u` -ne 0]; then echo "You need root privileges to run this script" exit 1 fi . /lib/lsb/init-functions if [-r /etc/default/rcS]; then . /etc/default/rcS fi # The following variables can be overwritten in $DEFAULT PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/opt/logstash/bin # See contents of file named in $DEFAULT for comments LS_USER=logstash LS_GROUP=logstash LS_HOME=/var/lib/logstash LS_HEAP_SIZE="2g" LS_JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=${LS_HOME}" LS_LOG_FILE=/var/log/logstash/$NAME.log LS_CONF_DIR=/etc/logstash/conf.d LS_OPEN_FILES=65535 LS_NICE=19 LS_OPTS="-v" LS_PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid # End of variables that can be overwritten in $DEFAULT # overwrite settings from default file if [-f "$DEFAULT"]; then . "$DEFAULT" fi # Define other required variables PID_FILE=${LS_PIDFILE} DAEMON=/opt/logstash/bin/logstash DAEMON_OPTS="agent -f ${LS_CONF_DIR} -l ${LS_LOG_FILE} ${LS_OPTS}" # Check DAEMON exists if ! test -e $DAEMON; then log_failure_msg "Script $DAEMON doesn't exist" exit 1 fi case "$1" in start) if [-z "$DAEMON"]; then log_failure_msg "no logstash script found - $DAEMON" exit 1 fi # Check if a config file exists if [! "$(ls -A $LS_CONF_DIR/*.conf 2> /dev/null)"]; then log_failure_msg "There aren't any configuration files in $LS_CONF_DIR" exit 1 fi log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" # Parse the actual JAVACMD from the process' environment, we don't care about errors. JAVA=$(cat /proc/$(cat "${PID_FILE}" 2>/dev/null)/environ 2>/dev/null | grep -z ^JAVACMD= | cut -d= -f2) if start-stop-daemon --test --start --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --user "$LS_USER" --exec "$JAVA" >/dev/null; then # Prepare environment HOME="${HOME:-$LS_HOME}" JAVA_OPTS="${LS_JAVA_OPTS}" ulimit -n ${LS_OPEN_FILES} cd "${LS_HOME}" export PATH HOME JAVACMD JAVA_OPTS LS_HEAP_SIZE LS_JAVA_OPTS LS_USE_GC_LOGGING # Start Daemon start-stop-daemon --start -b --user "$LS_USER" -c "$LS_USER":"$LS_GROUP" -d "$LS_HOME" --nicelevel "$LS_NICE" --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS sleep 1 # Parse the actual JAVACMD from the process' environment, we don't care about errors. JAVA=$(cat /proc/$(cat "${PID_FILE}" 2>/dev/null)/environ 2>/dev/null | grep -z ^JAVACMD= | cut -d= -f2) if start-stop-daemon --test --start --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --user "$LS_USER" --exec "$JAVA" >/dev/null; then if [-f "$PID_FILE"]; then rm -f "$PID_FILE" fi log_end_msg 1 else log_end_msg 0 fi else log_progress_msg "(already running)" log_end_msg 0 fi ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" set +e if [-f "$PID_FILE"]; then start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --user "$LS_USER" --retry=TERM/20/KILL/5 >/dev/null if [$? -eq 1]; then log_progress_msg "$DESC is not running but pid file exists, cleaning up" elif [$? -eq 3]; then PID="`cat $PID_FILE`" log_failure_msg "Failed to stop $DESC (pid $PID)" exit 1 fi ``` ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Pich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Don\_Pich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Pich)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/3 "2015-11-03T21:04:17Z")
``` rm -f "$PID_FILE" else log_progress_msg "(not running)" fi log_end_msg 0 set -e ;; status) set +e # Parse the actual JAVACMD from the process' environment, we don't care about errors. JAVA=$(cat /proc/$(cat "${PID_FILE}" 2>/dev/null)/environ 2>/dev/null | grep -z ^JAVACMD= | cut -d= -f2) start-stop-daemon --test --start --pidfile "$PID_FILE" --user "$LS_USER" --exec "$JAVA" >/dev/null 2>&1 if ["$?" = "0"]; then if [-f "$PID_FILE"]; then log_success_msg "$DESC is not running, but pid file exists." exit 1 else log_success_msg "$DESC is not running." exit 3 fi else log_success_msg "$DESC is running with pid `cat $PID_FILE`" fi set -e ;; restart|force-reload) if [-f "$PID_FILE"]; then $0 stop sleep 1 fi $0 start ;; *) log_success_msg "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 ``` ---
**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:** [November 3, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/4 "2015-11-03T21:07:42Z")
How did you install LS, from package or repo? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Pich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Don\_Pich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Pich)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/5 "2015-11-03T21:40:10Z")
I downloaded the 1.5.5 tar file and extracted it in /opt/elasticsearch. I have multiple config files in /etc/logstash/conf.d _Don Pich | Jedi Master (aka System Administrator 2) | O: 701-952-5925_ 3320 Westrac Drive South, Suite A \* Fargo, ND 58103 Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/RealTruck](http://www.facebook.com/RealTruck) | Youtube [http://www.youtube.com/realtruckcom](http://www.youtube.com/realtruckcom)| Twitter [http://twitter.com/realtruck](http://twitter.com/realtruck) | Google+ [https://google.com/+Realtruck](https://google.com/+Realtruck) | Instagram [http://instagram.com/realtruckcom](http://instagram.com/realtruckcom) | Linkedin [http://www.linkedin.com/company/realtruck](http://www.linkedin.com/company/realtruck) | Our Guiding Principles [http://www.realtruck.com/our-guiding-principles/](http://www.realtruck.com/our-guiding-principles/) “If it goes on a truck we got it, if it’s fun we do it” – [RealTruck.com](http://RealTruck.com) [http://realtruck.com/](http://realtruck.com/) ---
**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:** [November 3, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/6 "2015-11-03T21:41:23Z")
Why not use the packaged version that provides an init script? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Pich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Don\_Pich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Don_Pich)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/7 "2015-11-05T19:06:06Z")
I probably should be and most times I do. But I have reasons to run the package. I fixed this with use of another init script: ``` #! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: logstash # Required-Start: $network $remote_fs $named $elasticsearch # Required-Stop: $network $remote_fs $named $elasticsearch # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start logstash at boot time # Description: Enable service provided by daemon. ### END INIT INFO . /lib/lsb/init-functions name="logstash" logstash_bin="/opt/logstash/bin/logstash" logstash_conf="/etc/logstash/conf.d" logstash_log="/var/log/logstash.log" pid_file="/var/run/logstash.pid" logstash_opts="-f ${logstash_conf} -l ${logstash_log}" start () { log_daemon_msg "Starting $name" "$name" if start-stop-daemon --quiet --oknodo --pidfile "$pid_file" -b -m --exec $logstash_bin --start -- $logstash_opts; then log_end_msg 0 else log_end_msg 1 fi } stop () { log_daemon_msg "Stopping $name" "$name" start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile "$pid_file" } status () { status_of_proc -p $pid_file $logstash_bin "$name" } case $1 in start) if status; then exit 0; fi start ;; stop) stop ;; reload) stop start ;; restart) stop start ;; status) status && exit 0 || exit $? ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 ``` ---
**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, 5:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-init-process-in-debian-jessie/33673/8 "2017-07-06T05:23:46Z")