title: logstash : file input is not working
body: <p>I am trying to run sample eg. using <strong>logstash-1.4.2</strong> in <strong>CDH 4.4</strong>. Whenever I use file input instead of stdin, the window freezes at the following message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Using milestone 2 plugin 'file'. This plugin should be stable but if
    you see strange behavior, please let us know! For more
    information.....
    My code looks like this:</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>input {
    file {
      path =&gt; "/tmp/access_log"
      start_position =&gt; "beginning"
    }
  }
  
  filter {
    if [path] =~ "access" {
      mutate { replace =&gt; { "type" =&gt; "apache_access" } }
      grok {
        match =&gt; { "message" =&gt; "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}" }
      }
    }
    date {
      match =&gt; [ "timestamp" , "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z" ]
    }
  }
  
  output {
    file{
  path =&gt;"/logs/output_log"
  }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Command-  bin/logstash -f logstash-apache.conf</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have tried deleting all my previous sincedb files in the $HOME. directory and re-run logstash, but that doesn't seem to work either. Am I missing something?</p>