# Permission Denied Issue using Logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-issue-using-logstash/155824>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-issue-using-logstash/155824 "2018-11-08T05:56:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![magician.kim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@magician.kim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magician.kim)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-issue-using-logstash/155824/1 "2018-11-08T05:56:55Z")

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Hi, I've been started ELK Stack (+Filebeat) for one week.

I'm trying to transfer log files data using Filebeat and Logstash to ElasticSearch.

Here, my Logstash configuration file.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/2/92d8213187513a0f5c56a5988c472d2c7bfa56c0.jpeg)

And I started Logstash and received error message just like this.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/16df1bf7304b7d8382f6d6ad21abf9be6f732109.png)

I've got more messages but I can't open here.  
How can I do in this situation?

Give me a solution plz.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![\_Alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/54ee81/32.png) [@\_Alex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_Alex)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-issue-using-logstash/155824/2 "2018-11-08T11:22:30Z")

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Does your user have write permission to `/Users/s.h.kim/Downloads/logstash-6.4.1/logs/`? Does a `logstash-plain.log` already exist, and if it does, do you have write permissions on it?

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**Author:** ![magician.kim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@magician.kim](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magician.kim)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-issue-using-logstash/155824/3 "2018-11-08T15:56:07Z")

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Thanks Alex.

I already have a logstash-plain.log file, so I gave write permissions to it.  
And then it works !!

But, next step I got a message like this.....

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/a/7af915f4af0f6d9e13a30bce3a3d2438a5951e74.jpeg)

I think it is same problem (write permission)  
So I gave write permissions ....  
/logstash-6.4.1/data/queue  
/logstash-6.4.1/data/dead\_letter\_queue  
/logstash-6.4.1/data/.lock

After giving write permissions, it works well..  
Thanks again !!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/permission-denied-issue-using-logstash/155824/4 "2018-12-06T16:04:36Z")

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