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Arnout Engelen
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@@ -81,7 +81,17 @@ If you want to remove Nethogs from your system, you can:
sudo make uninstall sudo make uninstall
### Running without root ### Running
See the manpage for the options.
You will see a line called 'unknown TCP' - this bucket is used for traffic
that cannot be associated with any process, for example because the process
has terminated before its traffic could be counted. As long as there's not
a significant amount of traffic in this bucket it can likely be safely
ignored.
#### Running without root
In order to be run by a non-root user, nethogs needs the `cap_net_admin` and `cap_net_raw` capabilities; additionally, to read and display process names, `cap_dac_read_search` and `cap_sys_ptrace` capabilities are required. These can be set on the executable by using the `setcap` command, as follows: In order to be run by a non-root user, nethogs needs the `cap_net_admin` and `cap_net_raw` capabilities; additionally, to read and display process names, `cap_dac_read_search` and `cap_sys_ptrace` capabilities are required. These can be set on the executable by using the `setcap` command, as follows: