# Run elasticsearch on startup - Ubuntu SysV install not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-elasticsearch-on-startup-ubuntu-sysv-install-not-working/45278
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 23, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-elasticsearch-on-startup-ubuntu-sysv-install-not-working/45278 "2016-03-23T19:19:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Bauer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Bauer)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-elasticsearch-on-startup-ubuntu-sysv-install-not-working/45278/1 "2016-03-23T19:19:20Z")
I am installing elasticsearch 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 14.04. Following this guide [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-repositories.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-repositories.html)
Ubuntu 14.04 has SysV (/etc/init.d)
when running $ sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10
I get: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/elasticsearch: file does not exist
I suppose I could write my own script, but that will take time, and i suppose that the one that is supposed to be there would be better / more robust.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the package already.
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### Author:  [@msimos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/msimos)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-elasticsearch-on-startup-ubuntu-sysv-install-not-working/45278/2 "2016-03-23T21:45:21Z")
Hi,
From what I can tell an init script is shipped with the .deb package:
```auto
[root@logstash:~]$ apt-get download elasticsearch
Get:1 http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/2.x/debian/ stable/main elasticsearch all 2.2.1 [29.3 MB]
[root@logstash:~]$ dpkg -c elasticsearch_2.2.1_all.deb | grep init.d
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2016-03-09 09:45 ./etc/init.d/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 5428 2016-03-09 09:45 ./etc/init.d/elasticsearch
```
You may want to confirm this yourself.
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### Author:  [@Nick\_Bauer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nick_Bauer)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-elasticsearch-on-startup-ubuntu-sysv-install-not-working/45278/3 "2016-03-26T17:18:17Z")
Yup, that was it. A bit annoying that the ubuntu repo is missing this. I do have a "complaint" about ES, there is no respawn / recovery element as far as I can see. Working on solving that right now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/run-elasticsearch-on-startup-ubuntu-sysv-install-not-working/45278/4 "2017-07-05T23:04:55Z")