Cockpit should build and run without systemd

[stefwalter]

Cockpit should build and run without systemd, for example on RHEL 6. This means a few things:

• Optional use of libsystemd and journal code in cockpit-ws and cockpit-bridge
• An alternate package which provides the 'server' component that does not use systemd functionality.
• A simple sysv startup script

[stefwalter]

We can already run without socket activation, so that's not an issue.

[subhashc]

Hi Stef,
Can you provide me cockpit installation guide for RHEL 6.

[stefwalter]

Cockpit does not build or run on RHEL 6 at this time. Hopefully we can get to that point in the future.

[cig0]

Hi all,
I too am interested in running Cockpit on my RHEL / CentOS servers at work, please let me know if can help with the testing / bug-squashing..
Regards!

[stefwalter]

@msx That's great, but we're not at that point yet. The basic work to build on RHEL6 isn't there yet. Here's a related trello card:

https://trello.com/c/3h8dyPl6/70-build-cockpit-bridge-rhel6

[stefwalter]

I'm moving this to the Ideas page since it's not clear who would contribute this work and when or if it would happen. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Ideas