# Logstash startup completed nothing proceeds after this command in logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 22, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715 "2017-11-22T13:00:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ayushbij27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayushbij27)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715/1 "2017-11-22T13:00:20Z")
I am trying to index the data from logs file to elastisearch but I was unable to do so because after the Logstash Startup completed message appears nothing actually happens. So I changed conf file to
input {
file {
path =\> "/home/ayush/Desktop/logstash-tutorial-dataset"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
}
}
output {
stdout {}
}
So the data of logstash-tutorial-dataset should gets printed on terminal but it isn't. Please help me with this.
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715/2 "2017-11-22T14:07:38Z")
What happens if you add `sincedb_path => "/dev/null"` to your file input?
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### Author:  [@guyboertje](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guyboertje)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715/3 "2017-11-22T14:52:37Z")
Or read these docs: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html#\_tracking\_of\_current\_position\_in\_watched\_files](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html#_tracking_of_current_position_in_watched_files)
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### Author:  [@ayushbij27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayushbij27)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715/4 "2017-11-23T06:33:17Z")
Thanks for the reply, it solved my problem. But I have couple of questions on this.
1. How does adding **sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"** solved my problem. What it actually did?
2. When I am changing my **conf** file like this
input {
file {
path =\> "/home/ayush/Desktop/logstash-tutorial-dataset"
start\_position =\> "beginning"
sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null"
}
}
output {
file {
path =\> "/home/ayush/Desktop/ltd.txt"
}
stdout{}
}
I am able to get the value printed through stdout on terminal as well as the .txt file gets created but **no data** is present in the ltd.txt file .How can I solve this?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2017, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715/5 "2017-11-23T06:36:24Z")
> How does adding sincedb\_path =\> "/dev/null" solved my problem. What it actually did?
It tells Logstash to read the sincedb information from /dev/null, basically an empty file, thereby not paying attention to the old sincedb file which contained the current position in the file. The `start_position` option only matters for new and previously unseen files. If Logstash has processed a file it won't process it again regardless of the `start_position` option.
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### Author:  [@ayushbij27](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ayushbij27)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715/6 "2017-11-23T09:50:24Z")
Can you please help me with the sceond question as well?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2017, 9:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-startup-completed-nothing-proceeds-after-this-command-in-logstash/108715/7 "2017-12-21T09:50:39Z")
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