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Prometheus Node Exporter /lib/init/init-d-script: /usr/bin/daemon: not found

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After Ubuntu upgrade 18.04 -18.10, Prometheus Node Exporter started to complain:

root@grafana:~# /etc/init.d/prometheus-node-exporter 
startStarting Prometheus exporter for machine metrics prometheus-node-exporter                                                         
/etc/init.d/prometheus-node-exporter: 45: /lib/init/init-d-script: /usr/bin/daemon: not found

Fix for this is quite easy – just install missing dependency:

root@grafana:~# apt
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