# Logstash not starting. Cannot find config files
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-cannot-find-config-files/64596
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 1, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-cannot-find-config-files/64596 "2016-11-01T17:13:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@skeer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skeer)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-cannot-find-config-files/64596/1 "2016-11-01T17:13:24Z")
Following the tutorial here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.0/installing-logstash.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/5.0/installing-logstash.html)
I installs LS via the yum repo, and I think the location of the conf files got confused. I have an /etc/logstash/config that's empty. But it seems most of the errors I've seen logged want them in /usr/share/logstash/config, which did not exist until my troubleshooting this earlier this morning.
So I have copied the log4j2.properties and a conf file I generated from the examples listed on that site above. But I still feel as though something is wrong.
[http://pastebin.com/smGtHszS](http://pastebin.com/smGtHszS)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-starting-cannot-find-config-files/64596/4 "2017-07-06T04:31:38Z")