[collectd] [PATCH] email plugin: Don't unlink the socket file on startup.

[Sebastian Harl]

Usually, collectd runs as user root, thus making it an unsafe operation to
unconditionally remove the file even though one should be able to assume
that it "belongs" to collectd.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl <sh at tokkee.org>
---
 src/email.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/email.c b/src/email.c
index fbdc785..edd72cb 100644
--- a/src/email.c
+++ b/src/email.c
@@ -396,7 +396,6 @@ static void *open_connection (void *arg)
 	addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
 
 	sstrncpy (addr.sun_path, path, (size_t)(UNIX_PATH_MAX - 1));
-	unlink (addr.sun_path);
 
 	errno = 0;
 	if (-1 == bind (connector_socket, (struct sockaddr *)&addr,
-- 
1.5.6.rc2

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