cockpit-devel April 2020

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Suggestion for changing cockpit default session timeout
by Gal Zaidman 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

Hi Cockpit developers, I saw that on cockpit-209 Session timeouts were added with the default to 15 minutes of inactivity (https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-209.html ). I think that this change is problematic because: 1. The timeout is very short and it can cause unexpected behavior to users and cockpit packages. 2. The timeout can only be configured in the /etc/cockpit.conf file, so it is hard for packages to configure it to fit to their behavior. For example, we created a package for installing ovirt with cockpit UI, that installation can take a lot of time, it has different phases and logging out in the middle can cause problems. We prefer to avoid editing /etc/cockpit.conf because we don't want to run over user configuration (what to do when there is already cockpit.conf present?) I want to suggest: 1. Raising the timeout to 2 hours of inactivity, this seems reasonable. 2. Provide a more flexible way of configuring the timeout, with an option to the manifest.json package file and/or with a cockpit API call. Thanks

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Cockpit 218 and cockpit-podman 16 released
by Martin Pitt 29 Apr '20

29 Apr '20

Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 218: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-218.html Summary: - Services: Improved accessibility and mobile support - Overview: Add uptime information - Disable idle timeout by default - Support building without polkit You can get Cockpit here: http://cockpit-project.org/running.html Cockpit 218 is available in Fedora 31 and 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-3404e09362 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-d3da290f23 Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/218 We also released cockpit-podman 16. Summary: - Restyle buttons and dropdowns to be consistent with Cockpit - Disable button and show a spinner while delete operation is in progress - Translation updates It's available in Fedora 31 and 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-118ad70fc7 https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-472a8d70ba Or download the tarball here: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-podman/releases/tag/16 Take care, Martin Pitt

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Debugging cockpit spawn
by Justin Stephenson 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Hi, I am looking to debug an issue in my cockpit module(cockpit-session-recording) as I believe I am not getting all the output from the cockpit spawn returned object. I have a few questions from my initial investigation: In src/base1/cockpit.js I see: * function spawn_debug() { if (window.debugging == "all" || window.debugging == "spawn") console.debug.apply(console, arguments); }* How do I enable this debugging? I also went through the below steps but I'm not sure which cockpit process I need to debug. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/blob/master/HACKING.md#running-c… Is it correct to assume cockpit_pipe_spawn() in src/common/cockpitpipe.c is the C interface that the cockpit.spawn API calls underneath? If there are better ideas, or i'm going about this in the wrong way then I'm open to suggestions. Thank you in advance. -Justin

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Cockpit 217
by Marius Vollmer 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Hi! Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 217: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-217.html Summary: Overview: More details about Insights rule hits Dialogs: Buttons have been improved Machines: Sending more keys to the console Cockpit 217 is available for download here: - source tarball: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/217 - Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-dd9f5f6216 - Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-b072ad14c8

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Re: Cockpit on windows
by Martin Pitt 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Hello Jonathan, Jonathan Aquilina [2020-04-07 5:25 +0000]: > There is a bit of a misunderstanding. Is it possible to run cockpit on a windows machine on IIS to admin linux machines? Theoretically, it may be possible to reengineer the build system to build *just* cockpit-ws (the web server component) on Windows, if you have gnutls, glib etc., and provide the service startup manually. Normally this is controlled by systemd, through the TLS proxy cockpit-tls. But the practical answer is "no, it does not work right now and there is neither effort going on nor motivation to do so". You can certainly place IIS in front of cockpit-ws as a reverse proxy, though. https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Proxying-Cockpit-over-NGINX documents how to do that for nginx. But when you use cockpit, you always have to use cockpit-ws somewhere (with a reverse proxy on top of it or not). Martin

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Re: Cockpit on windows
by Martin Pitt 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Hello Jonathan, Jonathan Aquilina [2020-04-07 4:54 +0000]: > Is cockpit going to be brought to windows? If not are there plans to release it to be run for windows? Cockpit is strictly a tool to administer a *Linux* server. It is absolutely not portable to run on or administer a Windows server (it's not even portable to other Unix flavors). However, Windows has its own kind of web console: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center… (Previously known as "Project Honolulu"). On the client side, Cockpit can be *used* with any web browser, including Microsoft Edge (or other browsers) on Windows. Martin

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Re: Cockpit 215
by Paul Bovbel 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Is libpod and cockpit-podman going to be available in Ubuntu 20.04? It would be a shame to have neither cockpit-docker nor cockpit-podman available in an LTS release. Moreover, it would be great to have both available in a release to allow folks to transition as necessary.

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Cockpit on windows
by Jonathan Aquilina 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

Hi Guys, Is cockpit going to be brought to windows? If not are there plans to release it to be run for windows? Regards, Jonathan Aquilina EagleEyeT Phone +356 20330099 Sales - sales(a)eagleeyet.net<mailto:sales@eagleeyet.net> Support - support(a)eagleeyet.net

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Cockpit 216
by Allison Karlitskaya 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

hi all, Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. Here are the release notes from version 216: https://cockpit-project.org/blog/cockpit-216.html Summary: - SELinux: Automatic application of solutions that set booleans - Machines: Drop virsh backend support - Overview: New "last login" banner Cockpit 216 is available for download here: - source tarball: https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/releases/tag/216 - Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-6bf666bd24 - Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-29e40ad324 Allison

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