Cockpit Web Console Install

[alexlabarge]

[Good afternoon everyone,

I wanted to share my results to get Cockpit (https://cockpit-project.org/) working on Gentoo. I haven't finished the bash script below, but I can confirm following the steps worked.

Do you guys think it would be beneficial to get another ebuild together? I see a few others have done so, but nothing recent.

Terminal in Browser: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1265ZHhl9dqHfhW9rHQzn_6JSvtCmCF8S/view?usp=sharing
Live System Stats: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CdUQIuoDkJuvq3A-3SnEEwhaMUFjRoQA/view?usp=sharing

Steps:

# All Commands as Sudo or Root

# Update System
sudo emerge --sync

# Install Git
sudo emerge --ask --verbose dev-vcs/git

# Resolve Dependency Problems for Cockpit (Before we Even Try to Install)
sudo emerge --ask net-libs/libssh2
# Performance Co Pilot is a Dependency of Cockpit - and then has its own nested dependency problems
# We will resolve the depencies, then clone, and then build
# FIX DEPENDENCY PROBLEM: Project ERROR: Unknown module(s) in QT: printsupport
sudo emerge -av dev-qt/qtprintsupport

# Git Clone Performance Co Pilot
sudo mkdir -p /opt/git_builds
cd /opt/git_builds
sudo git clone https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp.git

# Build Performance Co Pilot
# Make the PCP User First as Required per PCP Documentation
sudo groupadd -r pcp
sudo useradd -c "Performance Co-Pilot" -g pcp -d /var/lib/pcp -M -r -s /usr/sbin/nologin pcp
cd /opt/git_builds/pcp
# Configure PCP *** DO NOT USE ./Makepkgs --verbose *** <- This is for building an RPM, etc.
sudo ./configure
# Make PCP
sudo make -j8
# Install PCP
sudo make -j8 install
# Check to See if PCP is Installed as of 4 Oct 23: pcp version 6.1.1
sudo pcp --version

# OpenSSH is a Dependency of Cockpit
sudo emerge --ask net-misc/openssh
sudo systemctl start sshd
sudo systemctl enable sshd

# Git Clone Cockpit
cd /opt/git_builds
sudo git clone https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit.git

# Build Cockpit
cd /opt/git_builds/cockpit
sudo ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
sudo make -j8
sudo make -j8 install

# Resolve Cockpit Logon Problems with PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
sudo sh -c '
echo "#%PAM-1.0" > /etc/pam.d/cockpit
echo "auth include system-remote-login" >> /etc/pam.d/cockpit
echo "account include system-remote-login" >> /etc/pam.d/cockpit
echo "password include system-remote-login" >> /etc/pam.d/cockpit
echo "session include system-remote-login" >> /etc/pam.d/cockpit
'

# Start and Enable Cockpit with SystemD
sudo systemctl start cockpit
sudo systemctl enable cockpit

# Optional - Haven't Dug into it yet, but the pmlogger service is not starting due to incorrect environmental variables in the pmdc.conf (another service for PCP).
# So, disabling pmlogger is not enough, because it then gets called by pmlogger_daily.timer. So, we need to disable the timer as well.
# I will use a different overall performance logging mechanism like Grafana, but cockpit overall functionality is there.
sudo systemctl disable pmlogger_daily.timer
sudo systemctl stop pmlogger_daily.timer
sudo systemctl disable pmlogger
sudo systemctl stop pmlogger
# Will also mask them for now
sudo systemctl mask pmlogger_daily.timer
sudo systemctl mask pmlogger

[alamahant]

Have you seen this
https://gpo.zugaina.org/app-admin/cockpit
?
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