This still looks very much like your $CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH variable is not set.
It explicitly says that --socket-path is optional if that variable is set.
If it just was the node not running, the error message would be “socket does not exist” like in your second try.
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interesting. node is running. but “socket does not exist” is shown
That is because you literally wrote --socket-path SOCKET_PATH. Of course, you have to replace SOCKET_PATH by the actual socket path on your machine, the value you also set $CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH to if you choose the other way of doing it. That’s how the documentation of every single command line command works.
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