Is cockpit supposed to run on plain CentOS hosts?

I didn't have it installed: possibly because it started as a hypervisor host in version 3.x when cockpit not available.

During updates it has not put in as a requirement package.

I manually installed it and then enabled/started the cockpit.socket systemd unit.

It seems started and I can correctly connect to https at tcp port 9090, but when doing a status of the cockpit.socket unit I see

Oct 09 15:59:01 ov300 update-motd[22990]: /usr/share/cockpit/motd/update-motd: line 24: /run/cockpit/active.motd: No such file or directory

Oct 09 15:59:01 ov300 ln[22998]: /bin/ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/run/cockpit/motd’: No such file or directory

Oct 09 15:59:01 ov300 systemd[1]: Listening on Cockpit Web Service Socket.

Line 24 of /usr/share/cockpit/motd/update-motd :

printf 'Web console: %s%s\n\n' "${hostname_url}" "${ip_url}" > /run/cockpit/active.motd

and on the host

[root@ov300 ~]# ll -d /run/c*

drwxr-x---. 2 chrony chrony 60 May 24 16:18 /run/chrony

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5 May 24 16:18 /run/chronyd.pid

drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 40 May 24 16:18 /run/console

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5 May 24 16:18 /run/crond.pid

----------. 1 root root 0 May 24 16:18 /run/cron.reboot

[root@ov300 ~]#

Is this a bug? Can I manually create the " /run/cockpit" directory?

Thanks,

Gianluca