Austin S. Hemmelgarn

> Also, keep in mind the var location is also technically wrong, it goes to /usr/local/var/run/netdata but no freebsd port that i know of uses anything like this and instead...

Quick update on this. It looks like `--prefix=/foo` actually works correctly, the issue seems to actually be in how the install/build code is invoking the config script (specifically, we’re explicitly...

Based on further investigation, this is a result of issues in how openSUSE chooses to handle systemd (namely, they blindly assume that there is a running instance of systemd no...

Do we know yet if this is _just_ the DEB packages, or both DEB and RPM packages? Likely root cause is different in either case.

> As I wrote above, both DEB & RPM packages are impacted. I can double-check this. Ah, sorry, missed that in the original post somehow.

First steps towards fixing this in https://github.com/netdata/netdata/pull/13451 Once that’s merged, I’ll be opening a followup PR to modify the updater so it uses the files that will then be under...

This is on our list to properly support long-term, but we currently have no ETA for when that may actually happen (at minimum it won’t be before we finish the...

> The biggest issue with the kickstart script is that it's not easily automate-able. Ideally I want to be able to plugin to my ansible playbook... > And then push...

This is expected behavior on WSL. There is no service manager inside the container itself, so we cannot install Netdata as a service. We should probably update things to not...

Updating assigned people on this because its primarily a packaging thing. @netdata/agent-sre The fix here should be properly detecting common cases where there is no service manager on the system...