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authorIlya Mashchenko <ilya@netdata.cloud>2022-08-04 20:00:36 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-08-04 20:00:36 +0300
commit394574c9a2ef8353ff6b648c62777028d984f16c (patch)
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docs: add a note about edit-config for docker installs (#13487)
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@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ to restart the container: `docker restart netdata`.
### Host-editable configuration
+> **Warning**: [edit-config](/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory) script doesn't work when executed on
+> the host system.
+
If you want to make your container's configuration directory accessible from the host system, you need to use a
[volume](https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/) rather than a bind mount. The following commands create a
temporary `netdata_tmp` container, which is used to populate a `netdataconfig` directory, which is then mounted inside