Cockpit.service can't be enabled

[BeanAE86]

Hi everyone,

new to the linuxworld (sort off as I haven't dealt with a linux system in over 20 years) - so please go gentle.

I'm running the lates CentOS as a hypervisor with ovirt (getting close to getting ovirt running at least) but right now one thing that's bugging me is the cockpit.service (version 155).

I can start it manually and it runs fine but when I check the status it's: static. If I try to enable it nothing happens. I think once it's said something about missing an install file or something. cockpit 155 was installed along ovirt.
Any ideas how I turn a static service into an enabled one as it's annoying to ssh into the server just to start it all the time.
Also when I haven't touched the server for a while it seems that cockpit stopped by itself. Hae to look for the logfile.

If there are any logs etc I can supply please let me know.

[dcrdev]

Cockpit uses socket activation...

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sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

[BeanAE86]

Cockpit uses socket activation...

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sudo systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

that much I know unfortunately it won't activate like that as it's static.

[dcrdev]

Yes it will!

Note that you need to enable cockpit.socket - not .service.