From: jason taylor Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 22:11:50 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: update priority information userguide meta X-Git-Tag: suricata-7.0.0-beta1~350 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=563dc668376c2e4346218b849d95e04272b93ac5;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git doc: update priority information userguide meta Signed-off-by: jason taylor --- diff --git a/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst b/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst index 20047ec937..9149b11a86 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst +++ b/doc/userguide/rules/meta.rst @@ -146,11 +146,11 @@ All the reference types are defined in the reference.config configuration file. priority -------- The priority keyword comes with a mandatory numeric value which can -range from 1 till 255. The numbers 1 to 4 are most often used. +range from 1 to 255. The numbers 1 through 4 are most often used. Signatures with a higher priority will be examined first. The highest priority is 1. Normally signatures have already a priority through -classtype. This can be overruled with the keyword priority. The -format of priority is:: +a classtype definiteion. The classtype definition can be overridden with the priority keyword +expressed in the signature. The format of priority is:: priority:1;