doc: update libcap-ng doc

pull/2343/head
Victor Julien 9 years ago
parent e5ee665f24
commit 729fd2e406

@ -5,22 +5,22 @@ Currently, libcap-ng is needed for dropping privileges on Suricata
after startup. For libcap, see status of feature request number #276
-- Libcap support for dropping privileges.
Download the current version of libcap-ng from upstream, see also
Most distributions have ``libcap-ng`` in their repositories.
To download the current version of libcap-ng from upstream, see also
http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/ChangeLog
::
wget http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/libcap-ng-0.7.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libcap-ng-0.7.4.tar.gz
cd libcap-ng-0.7.4
wget http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/libcap-ng-0.7.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libcap-ng-0.7.8.tar.gz
cd libcap-ng-0.7.8
./configure
make
make install
Download, configure, compile, and install Suricata for your particular
setup. See `Suricata Installation
<https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Suricata_Installation>`_. Depending
on your environment, you may need to add the
Download, configure, compile and install Suricata for your particular setup.
See :doc:`../install`. Depending on your environment, you may need to add the
--with-libpcap_ng-libraries and --with-libpcap_ng-includes options
during the configure step. e.g:
@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ e.g. (this assumes a 'suri' user and group):
::
/usr/local/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml \
-D -i eth0 --user=suri --group=suri
suricata -D -i eth0 --user=suri --group=suri
You will also want to make sure your user/group permissions are set so
suricata can still write to its log files which are usually located in

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