# The right way to specify environment?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-right-way-to-specify-environment/77204
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-right-way-to-specify-environment/77204 "2017-03-02T18:34:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ybizeul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ybizeul)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-right-way-to-specify-environment/77204/1 "2017-03-02T18:34:18Z")
I'm trying to figure out how I am supposed to setup a consistent environment for logstash to startup correctly.
```auto
# /usr/share/logstash/bin/system-install
Successfully created system startup script for Logstash
```
Looks good, but when I run :
```auto
Mar 02 13:29:04 adva logstash[15141]: Could not find any executable java binary. Please install java in your PATH or set JAVA_HOME.
```
If I fix `/etc/default/logstash` to include `JAVA_HOME` then the service starts correctly
Now, the problem is each time I run `system-install` it blows up `/etc/default/logstash` which is now empty, and logstash doesn't start anymore.
My startup.options contains these non empty/comment lines :
```auto
JAVACMD=/usr/local/nabox/java/bin/java
LS_HOME=/usr/share/logstash
LS_SETTINGS_DIR=/opt/logstash/etc
LS_OPTS="--path.settings ${LS_SETTINGS_DIR}"
LS_JAVA_OPTS=""
LS_PIDFILE=/var/run/logstash.pid
LS_USER=logstash
LS_GROUP=logstash
LS_GC_LOG_FILE=/var/log/logstash/gc.log
LS_OPEN_FILES=16384
LS_NICE=19
SERVICE_NAME="logstash"
SERVICE_DESCRIPTION="logstash"
```
It has every information needed to create a workable startup script but is missing something obviously. What am I doing wrong? Is there something I can put here that would end up declaring `JAVA_HOME` corectly in `/etc/default/logstash`
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-right-way-to-specify-environment/77204/2 "2017-03-02T19:01:14Z")
You are probably hitting [https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/6482](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/6482), which has been fixed and will be released in 5.3.0.
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### Author:  [@ybizeul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ybizeul)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-right-way-to-specify-environment/77204/3 "2017-03-02T19:07:42Z")
Yes, looks like a match!
I'll test it again on 5.3 then, any ETA?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@theuntergeek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/theuntergeek)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-right-way-to-specify-environment/77204/4 "2017-03-02T20:07:29Z")
Should be shortly after the 15th of March.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 8:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-right-way-to-specify-environment/77204/5 "2017-03-30T20:07:41Z")
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