# Logstash: Translation missing
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 16, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028 "2016-06-16T16:44:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@urbanninja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/urbanninja)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2016, 4:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028/1 "2016-06-16T16:44:43Z")
Hi,
I'm new to ELK and have recently got the ELK stack to work on an Amazon Web Services t2.medium instance.
My problem is that I can't get Logstash run my configuration file, which is throwing an error.
I get this error when I run the command:
./logstash -f ./etc/logstash/conf.d/test-logstash.conf -v
**Output:**
translation missing: en.logstash.runner.configuration.file-not-found {:level=\>:error}
starting agent {:level=\>:info}
The data I want logstash to input is a large text file called: log.txt
**Here are some of the lines found in the log.txt fil** e:
2003-02-20 20:38:52.067 d\_HbHS\_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:38:56.067 d\_HbHS\_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:39:00.067 d\_HbHS\_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:39:04.067 d\_HbHS\_t 43.4
2003-02-20 20:39:08.067 d\_HbHS\_t 42.7
2003-02-20 20:39:12.067 d\_HbHS\_t 42.7
Here I have a date (YYYY-MM-dd), time(HH:mm:ss:micro-seconds), parameter\_name, parameter\_value
**Here is my configuration file for logstash:**
input {
file {
path =\> "/home/ubuntu/data/log.txt"
type =\> "syslog"
start\_position =\> beginning
}
}
filter {
grok {
match =\> { "message" =\> "%{DATESTAMP:timestamp} %{WORD:parameter} %{NUMBER:value:float}"}
}
}
output {
stdout {
codec =\> rubydebug
}
elasticsearch {
action =\> "index"
hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]
index =\> "test-logstash-config"
}
}
Any insight into why there is a translation error will greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028/2 "2016-06-18T01:28:36Z")
What version are you on?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028/3 "2016-06-18T06:53:48Z")
> [@urbanninja](#):
>
> start\_position =\> beginning
I believe `start_position` should be a [string](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-inputs-file.html#_synopsis_7), e.g. `start position => "beginning"`
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028/4 "2016-06-20T07:58:27Z")
> I get this error when I run the command:
> ./logstash -f ./etc/logstash/conf.d/test-logstash.conf -v
> Output:
> translation missing: en.logstash.runner.configuration.file-not-found {:level=\>:error}
> starting agent {:level=\>:info}
Are you really in the root directory of the file system when you run this command? If not, remove the leading "." in the path.
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### Author:  [@urbanninja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/urbanninja)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028/5 "2016-06-20T20:44:23Z")
Thanks Magnus, you are correct in that I needed to remove the the leading "." in the path.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-translation-missing/53028/6 "2017-07-06T04:51:44Z")