COCKPIT-BRIDGE(1)

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✨ COCKPIT-BRIDGE ✨

okay bestie, so the manual name here is cockpit-bridge — she's serving Cockpit Host Bridge and honestly? underrated icon 💅

🦋 NAME

cockpit-bridge — Cockpit Host Bridge. that's the whole name, short and slay.

🌸 SYNOPSIS

cockpit-bridge [--help] [--packages]

💖 DESCRIPTION

okay so <pink>cockpit-bridge</pink> is the program Cockpit uses to relay messages and commands from the Web front end over to the server. she's the group chat relay fr fr. among other things, she relays DBus, and she spawns processes on behalf of the Web user interface. main character energy, doing all the behind-the-scenes work 🫶

now listen — this program is not routinely run by users or administrators. like, she is NOT for you to just casually launch, okay? 🙈 she lives in the $PATH so that Cockpit can find her when connecting between hosts. that's her whole reason for existing in your environment, iykyk.

BUT (and this is the cute part) there are some diagnostics available when running from the command line. so if you're in your terminal debugging era, you can poke at her. slay ✨

👑 OPTIONS

  • --help — shows help options. the classic "what do u even do" button, we love her 💖
  • --interact=boundary — interact with the raw cockpit1 protocol. lowkey iconic for debugging and testing. you have to specify a boundary, which should be on an empty line between messages. yes it's giving "why is there a boundary" — it's literally the divider between messages, periodt.
  • --packages — list all available Cockpit packages and exit. heads up though: this includes packages available to the user running this command, so who you are matters here bestie 👀
  • --version — shows Cockpit version information. for when you need receipts on which version you're on 🎀

💀 BUGS

found a bug? not the vibe. 😭 please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/issues/new. they will actually appreciate it, no cap.

🧚 AUTHOR

Cockpit has been written by many contributors — you can find them at https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit. a whole community effort, obsessed with them honestly 💜

⭐ SEE ALSO

and that's the tea, bestie 🍓 this page came from cockpit, dated 2026-10-22. go forth and relay those messages, you absolute queen 👑✨

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