LS_USER and LS_GROUP options not working

Elastic Stack Logstash
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I configured LS_USER="root" and LS_GROUP="root" parameters in two places "etc/default/logstash" and "etc/logstash/startup.options". When I start with command "sudo service logstash start" it is starting with logstash user.

The reason I am changing this is it is difficult to give file permissions to all log files which are necessary. So i thought of starting logstash as root so that it can have access to all of them.

Can anyone please suggest alternatives or better solutions?

Thanks
Harsha

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try just adding to the end of your etc/default/logstash I think this is how I solved a similar issue

export LS_USER LS_GROUP
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@eperry It didn't work for me. Any other solution you have?

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I will check my config today, I know I ran in to this,

Just for a sanity check, how did you install logstash, version and what Linux distribution?

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Thanks @eperry

I installed logstash through apt-get sources and I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, am using latest logstash 5.3.0

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ok, will have to check, my fix was for rhel but I may be able to recreate it on my desktop

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