in rootless mode, /tmp/podman-run-{myuid}/podman/podman.sock was not created

[yuki00200007]

Hi, I'm using podman(podman version 4.9.4-rhel) in rootless mode.
When I input $ podman info, I found that the remoteSocket file does not exist.
Is it normal?
OS: Rocky Linux 9.3

A part of the result of $ podman info

  remoteSocket:
    exists: false
    path: /tmp/podman-run-1100/podman/podman.sock

Thank you!

[rhatdan]

Yes on a Linux platform podman works locally and does not use the socket. If you want to use podman --remote on a local system you need to activate the podman.socket systemd unit file.

[rhatdan]

podman is different then Docker in that by default it does not require a demaon or service running, it just fork/exec to launch the container. Docker talks to a daemon, usually running as root, and the daemon launches the container.