# Stat metricbeat.yml: no such file or directory
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** metricbeat
**Created:** [August 25, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303 "2020-08-25T14:31:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@teej](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teej)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303/1 "2020-08-25T14:31:55Z")
Hi,
I am new with the Beats. I did a yum install of metricbeat and followed the instructions on Elastic site for setting up a keystore but oddly when I try to do:
/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat keystore create
I get:
/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat keystore create error initializing beat: error loading config file: stat metricbeat.yml: no such file or directory
On another machine, we installed filebeat without and created the keystore with no issues. Has anyone experienced this? What caused it? Thank you.
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### Author:  [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303/2 "2020-08-26T20:14:18Z")
Hey @teej,
> [@teej](#):
>
> /usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat keystore create
Try to run this command without the full path, just like this:
```auto
metricbeat keystore create
```
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### Author:  [@teej](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teej)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303/3 "2020-08-27T14:29:08Z")
J,
That worked! But why? I mean thank you but Im curious why the full path didnt work? Usually when doing this with the elastic keystore its the full path that works.
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### Author:  [@jsoriano](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsoriano)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303/4 "2020-08-27T15:05:14Z")
The `metricbeat` that is in your path is a script, located in `/usr/bin/metricbeat` that sets some flags and then runs the binary in `/usr/share/metricbeat/bin/metricbeat`.
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### Author:  [@teej](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/teej)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303/5 "2020-08-28T13:39:16Z")
Thank you Jaime.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/stat-metricbeat-yml-no-such-file-or-directory/246303/6 "2020-09-25T15:39:19Z")
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