docs: add a note about edit-config for docker installs (#13487)
Ilya Mashchenko committed
Aug 4, 2022 at 20:00 UTC
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packaging/docker/README.md
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@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ to restart the container: `docker restart netdata`.
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### Host-editable configuration
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+> **Warning**: [edit-config](/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory) script doesn't work when executed on
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+> the host system.
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If you want to make your container's configuration directory accessible from the host system, you need to use a
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[volume](https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/) rather than a bind mount. The following commands create a
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temporary `netdata_tmp` container, which is used to populate a `netdataconfig` directory, which is then mounted inside