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| author | Paul Buetow <35781042+pbuetow@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-12-29 09:48:56 +0000 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-12-29 09:48:56 +0000 |
| commit | 0fe3c8708634cc59d61bf47bd909ef0111f0d56a (patch) | |
| tree | c9f0dfa884927079de309b68c48224f4b0f00d0d /doc | |
| parent | 495e9f38220a6d448b15882a235e7a9c21f21d18 (diff) | |
| parent | 0099a7ab9e1d28300c69c3b50b4ebe1cde9a8cbc (diff) | |
Merge pull request #20 from snonux/develop
Make CGo dependencies optional (e.g. Linux ACL support)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/quickstart.md | 6 |
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diff --git a/doc/drun.gif b/doc/drun.gif Binary files differdeleted file mode 100644 index a3efeed..0000000 --- a/doc/drun.gif +++ /dev/null diff --git a/doc/installation.md b/doc/installation.md index 6f946c4..6bf17b0 100644 --- a/doc/installation.md +++ b/doc/installation.md @@ -7,6 +7,26 @@ The following installation guide has been tested successfully on CentOS 7. You m Please check the [Quick Starting Guide](quickstart.md) for instructions how to compile DTail. It is recommended to automate the build process via your build pipeline (e.g. produce a deployable RPM via Jenkins). You don't have to use ``go get...`` to compile and install the binaries. You can also clone the repository and use ``make`` instead. +## Linux ACL support + +This is optional but it gives you better security. On Linux you have the option to compile `dserver` with File System Access Control List support. For that you need: + +### 1. Install the `libacl` development library. On RHEL, CentOS and Fedora it would be + +```console +% sudo dnf install libacl-devel -y +``` + +### 2. Enable ACL via a Go build flag + +Set the `USE_ACL` environment variable before invoking the make command. + +```console +% export USE_ACL=yes +``` + +Alternatively you could just add `-tags linuxacl` to the Go compiler. + # Install it It is recommended to automate all the installation process outlined here. You could use a configuration management system such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible. However, that relies heavily on how your infrastructure is managed and is out of scope of this documentation. diff --git a/doc/licenses.md b/doc/licenses.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83a94e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/licenses.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Licenses +======== + +DTails main license is [Apache 2.0](../LICENSE). Further 3rd party licenses are: + +## DataDog zstd compression library + +Not included in DTail repository but imported automatically on build. + +* URL: https://github.com/DataDog/zstd +* License: [Simplified BSD](../LICENSE.DataDog.zstd) diff --git a/doc/quickstart.md b/doc/quickstart.md index 6baedbb..f1ac000 100644 --- a/doc/quickstart.md +++ b/doc/quickstart.md @@ -7,12 +7,6 @@ This guide assumes that you know how to generate and configure a public/private # Install it -On Linux you need to install the libacl development library for file system ACL permission support in `dserver`. On RHEL, CentOS and Fedora it would be - -```console -% sudo dnf install libacl-devel -y -``` - To compile and install all DTail binaries directly from GitHub run: ```console |
