metricbeat.yml not found when binary executed from different directory

[djschny]

• Version: 5.2.1
• Operating System: Mac 10.12.3
• Steps to Reproduce:

• Execute metricbeat from a different directory then where the configuration file exists and notice the error:

$ metricbeat-5.2.1-darwin-x86_64/metricbeat 
Exiting: error loading config file: open metricbeat.yml: no such file or directory

Expectation would be that be default it would look for the config in the same directory as where the binary exists.

[ruflin]

This was introduced in #2245 I think we kept it this way for BC compatibility. We should discuss to change this for 6.0

@tsg Your commit message in a4afb65 and the text in #2245 contradict each other. Which one is correct? I assume the commit message ...

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