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This patch is heavily inspired by bd0d8ed807d29faa3deee96bafcbbd76c8fa4060 which added a setcap wrapper for `mtr` in order to allow running `mtr` without `sudo`. The need for the capability `cap_net_raw` that can be registered using `setcap` has been documented in the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Capabilities#iftop A simple testcase has been added which starts two machines, one with a setcap wrapper for `iftop`, one without. Both testcases monitor the bandwidth usage of the machine using the options `-t -s 1` once, the machine with setcap wrapper is expected to succeed, the `iftop` on the machine without setcap wrapper is expected to return a non-zero exit code.
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the Hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-18.03 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-18.03
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
NixOS Linux distribution source code is located inside
nixos/ folder.
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