On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 4:10 PM Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:

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

It seems that a reboot of the node is "sufficient" to solve the situation. The cockpit.socket unit is active and the /run/cockpit directory has been generated... [root@ov300 ~]# uptime 16:44:48 up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.08, 0.05 [root@ov300 ~]# [root@ov300 ~]# ll -d /run/cockpit/ drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 80 Oct 9 16:41 /run/cockpit/ [root@ov300 ~]# [root@ov300 ~]# ll /run/cockpit/ total 4 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 84 Oct 9 16:42 active.motd lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 Oct 9 16:41 motd -> active.motd [root@ov300 ~]# [root@ov300 ~]# systemctl status cockpit.socket ● cockpit.socket - Cockpit Web Service Socket Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cockpit.socket; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (listening) since Tue 2018-10-09 16:41:39 CEST; 1min 22s ago Docs: man:cockpit-ws(8) Listen: [::]:9090 (Stream) Process: 995 ExecStartPost=/bin/ln -snf active.motd /run/cockpit/motd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 986 ExecStartPost=/usr/share/cockpit/motd/update-motd localhost (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 0 Oct 09 16:41:39 ov300 systemd[1]: Starting Cockpit Web Service Socket. Oct 09 16:41:39 ov300 systemd[1]: Listening on Cockpit Web Service Socket. [root@ov300 ~]# Gianluca