From 3734d92f66304948a1c18da24c1021dc697d6f48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Hartmann <cimatosa@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 21:30:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] minor add

---
 jobmanager/jobmanager.py | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jobmanager/jobmanager.py b/jobmanager/jobmanager.py
index 8626fad..faf6461 100644
--- a/jobmanager/jobmanager.py
+++ b/jobmanager/jobmanager.py
@@ -1429,8 +1429,6 @@ class JobManager_Server(object):
 
         if status_file_name:
             self.status_file = pathlib.Path(status_file_name)
-            if self.status_file.exists():
-                raise FileExistsError("the status file '{}' already exists".format(status_file_name))
             with open(self.status_file, 'w') as f:
                 f.write('init')
         else: