Unable to enable socket connections

[axxelG]

unix-socket-enabled is not configurable. It's a fixed setting commented out in influxdb.conf.erb

  # Enable http service over unix domain socket
  # unix-socket-enabled = false

MR will follow but there is a related topic to discuss. The default setting for http_bind_socket is /var/run/influxdb.sock This is the same default influxdb itself uses, but it is not working for most installations. Usually the influxdb user cannot write to /var/run/ so fails to create the socket and exits with run: open server: open service: listen unix /var/run/influxdb.sock: bind: permission denied

I doubt that influxdb would accept a braking change to change the default. Because this puppet module did not support sockets so far, this could be changed here without breaking existing installations.

This is a decision of keeping defaults consistent vs. providing working defaults. What is your opinion?

[axxelG]

PR: #29

[axxelG]

PR was merged some time ago