doc: update unix socket

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Victor Julien 8 years ago
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@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ Interacting via Unix Socket
Introduction
------------
Since 1.4 version, Suricata can listen to a unix socket and accept
commands from the user. The exchange protocol is JSON-based and the
format of the message has been done to be generic and it is described
in this commit message. An example script called suricatasc is
provided in the source and installed automatically when updating
Suricata.
Suricata can listen to a unix socket and accept commands from the user. The
exchange protocol is JSON-based and the format of the message has been done
to be generic.
The unix socket is disabled by default.
An example script called suricatasc is provided in the source and installed
automatically when installing/updating Suricata.
The unix socket is enabled by default if libjansson is available.
You need to have libjansson installed:
@ -19,15 +19,14 @@ You need to have libjansson installed:
* libjansson-dev - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data (dev)
* python-simplejson - simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python
::
Debian/Ubuntu::
apt-get install libjansson4 libjansson-dev python-simplejson
If libjansson is present on the system , unix socket will be compiled
in automatically - when you use "--enable-unix-socket" in your
configure line.
in automatically.
The creation of the socket is activated by setting enabled to yes
The creation of the socket is managed by setting enabled to 'yes' or 'auto'
under unix-command in Suricata YAML configuration file:
::

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