[collectd] collectd.conf is overwritten every few hours

[Joaquin Cuenca Abela]

Hi,

I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with collectd 5.3.0 and running collectd with
collectdmon. Every few hours (sometimes only a few minutes after a
restart), my /etc/collectd/collectd.conf is overwritten by a default
version of this file.

These changes are close in time to some collectd restarts. In this example
the file was written 1 minute after the last collectd restart:

root at eu4:/etc/collectd# ls -ld collectd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16457 May 23 13:37 collectd.conf

May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: Exiting normally.
May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: collectd: Stopping 5 read
threads.
May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: ping plugin: Shutting down
thread.
May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: email: accept() failed: Bad file
descriptor
May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: collectd: Stopping 5 write
threads.
May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectdmon[27024]: Info: collectd terminated
with exit status 0
May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectdmon[27024]: Info: shutting down
collectdmon
May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: cpufreq plugin: Found 8 CPUs
May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: Initialization complete,
entering read-loop.
May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: rrdtool plugin: Adjusting
"RandomTimeout" to 0.000 seconds.
May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: tcpconns plugin: Reading from
netlink succeeded. Will use the netlink method from now on.
May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: mysql plugin: Successfully
connected to database thumbrit at server Localhost via UNIX socket (server
version: 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.1-log, protocol version: 10)

Has anybody experienced before these overwrites? is it normal to have
collectd restarting every few hours? Any way to prevent this file being
overwritten?

Thanks!

-- 
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
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