TMPDIR problem with cron updates

[kimmo]

Every night cron runs i get message from cron.daily/netdata-updater

Problem is that we have /tmp secured such that there cannot be files executed, so we use TMPDIR=/home/netdata_tmp in this netdata-updater cron. After cron has run it rm -rf /home/netdata_tmp and yes again same error message next night cron run.

Debian 11 , netdata 1.47.4

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[Austin_Hemmelgarn]

Can you please share:

• The output of netdata -W buildinfo
• The contents of /etc/netdata/.environment or /opt/netdata/etc/netdata/.environment if those files exist.
• Specific details about how you are trying to get the updater to use the specified temporary directory (in particular, please check [Bug]: updater deleting custom temp directory · Issue #18724 · netdata/netdata · GitHub and confirm that you’re not running into the same issue).

[kimmo]

Not sure if i understood [Bug] Link you sent, but netdata is installed via debian packages so i just removed daily crontab file (symlink) . Let’s see how it goes with apt package updates.

/etc/cron.daily/netdata-updater → /usr/libexec/netdata/netdata-updater.sh