On Dec 19, 2020, at 15:27 , Adam Armstrong via observium <observium@observium.org> wrote:

It seems that at least on Debian/ubuntu current smokeping packages are broken and their init scripts aren’t passing variables correctly.
 

I’ve been able to track this down to permission issues with rrdcached (it was defaulted to -B) and rrdtool permission errors 

Not yet fixed but I have a way forward.