Before when I was running Verbose from the command line I was getting a warning that the service could not find logstash.yml but it would start using a default.
When starting from SystemCtl the service would start but not listen
So after the line above I rebooted and made sure the logstash service was running and did a netstat -ntl
And to my delight discovered that logstash was now listening on port 5000 as hoped and that the listener persisted.
So at the moment this is a solved issue. I hope this helps someone else
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