# Sudo systemctl start doesn't start logstash

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudo-systemctl-start-doesnt-start-logstash/116832>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 24, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudo-systemctl-start-doesnt-start-logstash/116832 "2018-01-24T09:04:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sjaak01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sjaak01](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sjaak01)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudo-systemctl-start-doesnt-start-logstash/116832/1 "2018-01-24T09:04:25Z")

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Hi,

I've moved Logstash to a AWS EC2 instance but running sudo systemctl start logstash.service doesn't do anything. systemctl status shows the process as active but nothing is showing up in the logstash logs.

Running logstash through sudo bin/logstash --path.settings /etc/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/test.conf is working fine.

I'm no linux expert at all. Does anyone have any pointers?

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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:** [February 21, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sudo-systemctl-start-doesnt-start-logstash/116832/2 "2018-02-21T09:04:49Z")

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