Try using TCP instead...

alert/alert

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ except IOError, e:
 
 fetcher = ctx.socket(zmq.SUB)
 fetcher.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "")
-fetcher.connect("ipc:///tmp/ccollectd-stats")
+fetcher.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:8998")
 
 class Bot(object):
 	def __init__(self, hosts, port, nickname, realname, channels, admins, subsock):

ccollectd/ccollectd

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from nacl.public import PublicKey, PrivateKey, Box
 ctx = zmq.Context()
 
 distributor = ctx.socket(zmq.PUB)
-distributor.bind("ipc:///tmp/ccollectd-stats")
+distributor.bind("tcp://127.0.0.1:8998")
 
 poller = zmq.Poller()
 

ccollectd/listen

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python2
-import socket, yaml, random, zmq, msgpack, time, uuid, fnmatch
+import zmq, msgpack
-import cPickle as pickle
 
 ctx = zmq.Context()
 
 fetcher = ctx.socket(zmq.SUB)
 fetcher.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, "")
-fetcher.connect("ipc:///tmp/ccollectd-stats")
+fetcher.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:8998")
 
 while True:
 	message = msgpack.unpackb(fetcher.recv())