email plugin: Don't unlink the socket file on startup.

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@tokkee.org>
Signed-off-by: Florian Forster <octo@huhu.verplant.org>

diff --git a/src/email.c b/src/email.c
index b718cf5c9eb184633dc37da18897f6bd4c65b6d7..c78d76146835ab2e55bedac09c8a36f71752e132 100644 (file)
--- a/src/email.c
+++ b/src/email.c
@@ -513,7 +513,6 @@ static void *open_connection (void *arg)
 
        strncpy (addr.sun_path, sock_file, (size_t)(UNIX_PATH_MAX - 1));
        addr.sun_path[UNIX_PATH_MAX - 1] = '\0';
-       unlink (addr.sun_path);
 
        errno = 0;
        if (-1 == bind (connector_socket, (struct sockaddr *)&addr,