# Red Hat Enterprise sudo service logstash start

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913 "2018-05-15T10:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![solo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/solo/32/29084_2.png) [@solo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/solo)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913/1 "2018-05-15T10:51:06Z")

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Im running Red Hat Enterprise 6.9

After installing logsatash I try to start it

```
sudo service logstash start
logstash: unrecognized service

```

Anyone know the issue?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913/2 "2018-05-15T11:23:32Z")

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How did you install it?

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**Author:** ![Dvikas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@Dvikas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dvikas)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913/3 "2018-05-15T12:10:32Z")

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give the command: bin/logstash -f path/to/logstash.conf

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**Author:** ![solo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/solo/32/29084_2.png) [@solo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/solo)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913/4 "2018-05-15T12:51:27Z")

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I installed Logstash like this:  
sudo rpm -ivh logstash-6.2.4.rpm

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**Author:** ![solo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/solo/32/29084_2.png) [@solo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/solo)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913/5 "2018-05-16T09:03:13Z")

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I know I can start Logstash like this:

`./bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/logstash-syslog.conf --path.settings /etc/logstash &`

But I want to start it as a service. Is it not possible?

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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:** [June 13, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-hat-enterprise-sudo-service-logstash-start/131913/6 "2018-06-13T09:03:22Z")

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