SURICATACTL(1)

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version 8.0.8 · 12 versions
, in alpine 3.24

💅 SURICATACTL(1) — the Suricata control girlies' era

okay so bestie, welcome to suricatactl from the Suricata manual, section 1. this is the little command-line bestie that runs things. she's giving main character energy and honestly? she ate. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

suricatactl — Suricata Control. that's her whole job, periodt 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

suricatactl [-h] <command> [<args>]

that's the shape of it, no cap. you call her, you hand her a <command>, and then whatever <args> that command wants. oh and -h is always there for you like a loyal bestie 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, what does she even do? she helps you control Suricata's features. that's it, that's the vibe. tools to poke at features, and she's holding the aux cord 🔥

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -h — the "help me bestie" flag. hit this and she'll spill all the available commands and what they do, like a group chat read-receipt but useful ✨

👑 COMMANDS 👑

😭 BUGS 😭

found a bug? got a feature request? don't suffer in silence, bestie. please visit Suricata's Community page for the info on how to submit bugs or feature requests. they will hear you out, fr fr 🙈

🌈 NOTES 🌈

some links, because iykyk 🔗

2016-2026, OISF — that's the whole copyright line, untouched, iconic, no notes 👑

heads up bestie: this page is out here in version 8.0.8, dated 2026-10-29, and you already know the man page family name is SURICATACTL(1) — all of that lives in the footer, and we are not losing a single crumb of it 💀💜

k bye, go read suricatactl-filestore(1) next, mwah 🧚💖

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