# Troubles running Logstash on RHEL

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubles-running-logstash-on-rhel/265472>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 25, 2021, 11:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubles-running-logstash-on-rhel/265472 "2021-02-25T11:30:21Z")\
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In Your command specify the filter/conf file . You ae just specified the directory name

Like this  
`/opt/logstash/bin/logstash -f /etc/logstash/conf.d/your_sample_filterfile.conf`

Run this command with root privilege's

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