# Service Timing out when starting (RHEL)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-timing-out-when-starting-rhel/180442>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 9, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-timing-out-when-starting-rhel/180442 "2019-05-09T21:17:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![danielmoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@danielmoon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmoon)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-timing-out-when-starting-rhel/180442/1 "2019-05-09T21:17:40Z")

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I'm going through a heck of a learning process here.  
I'm trying to setup filebeat on a RHEL server.

We've got filebeat installed and I believe we have all the permissions setup correctly but when I try to start the service it kind of hangs.

I say kind of because the command I'm using to start it  
`sudo systemctl start filebeat`  
never finishes activating, I never get control of the terminal back  
BUT  
during the ~20 minutes while it timesout, filebeat is working and shipping logs to our logstash like there's nothing wrong.

Here's the permissions I think are noteworthy:  
/etc/filebeat/filebeat.yml is set to chmod 640  
and  
filebeat is running as root

Am I missing anything here? Why won't filebeat successfully finish activating?

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**Author:** ![danielmoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/278dde/32.png) [@danielmoon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmoon)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-timing-out-when-starting-rhel/180442/2 "2019-05-09T21:19:50Z")

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Oh, I've read the logs at /var/log/filebeat, they act there's nothing wrong either. They don't even mention a timeout, only things like starting filebeat -\> setting up harvester -\> stopping filebeat

journal -u filebeat states that it timesout  
and  
/var/log/messages states that it timesout too.

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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 6, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/service-timing-out-when-starting-rhel/180442/3 "2019-06-06T21:19:53Z")

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