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:
::
- /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