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 # RHIDS
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/amrabed/rhids.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/amrabed/rhids)
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+Host-based Intrusion Detection System for Linux Containers<a href="#footnote" id="ref"><sup>*</sup></a>
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+To use `rhids`, please make sure you have [`strace-docker`](https://github.com/amrabed/strace-docker) installed. `rhids` depends on [`strace-docker`](https://github.com/amrabed/strace-docker) for collecting system calls from running containers.
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+## Usage
+### Basic install
+    git clone https://github.com/amrabed/rhids && sudo ./rhids/install
+    sudo rhids -h
+### Using Docker
+    docker run -it -v /var/log/strace-docker:/var/log/strace-docker amrabed/rhids
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+<a id="footnote" href="ref"><sup>*</sup></a> Implemented as part of my Ph.D. dissertation research. See [this paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03056) for more details