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Start Auditbeat

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Before starting Auditbeat:

To start Auditbeat, run:

sudo service auditbeat start

If you use an init.d script to start Auditbeat, you can’t specify command line flags (see Command reference). To specify flags, start Auditbeat in the foreground.

Also see Auditbeat and systemd.