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2 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
3 <refentry id="log2pcap.1">
5 <refmeta>
6         <refentrytitle>log2pcap</refentrytitle>
7         <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
8         <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
9         <refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
10         <refmiscinfo class="version">3.3</refmiscinfo>
11 </refmeta>
14 <refnamediv>
15         <refname>log2pcap</refname>
16         <refpurpose>Extract network traces from Samba log files</refpurpose>
17 </refnamediv>
19 <refsynopsisdiv>
20         <cmdsynopsis>
21                 <command>log2pcap</command>
22                 <arg choice="opt">-h</arg>
23                 <arg choice="opt">-q</arg>
24                 <arg choice="opt">logfile</arg>
25                 <arg choice="opt">pcap_file</arg>
26         </cmdsynopsis>
27 </refsynopsisdiv>
29 <refsect1>
30         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
32         <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
33         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
35         <para><command>log2pcap</command> reads in a 
36         samba log file and generates a pcap file (readable 
37         by most sniffers, such as ethereal or tcpdump) based on the packet 
38         dumps in the log file.</para>
40         <para>The log file must have a <parameter>log level</parameter> 
41         of at least <constant>5</constant> to get the SMB header/parameters 
42         right, <constant>10</constant> to get the first 512 data bytes of the 
43         packet and <constant>50</constant> to get the whole packet.
44         </para>
45 </refsect1>
47 <refsect1>
48         <title>OPTIONS</title>
50         <variablelist>
51             <varlistentry>
52                 <term>-h</term>
53                 <listitem><para>If this parameter is 
54                 specified the output file will be a 
55                 hex dump, in a format that is readable 
56                 by the <application>text2pcap</application> utility.</para></listitem>
57             </varlistentry>
59             <varlistentry>
60                 <term>-q</term>
61                 <listitem><para>Be quiet. No warning messages about missing 
62                 or incomplete data will be given.</para></listitem>
63             </varlistentry>
64                 
65             <varlistentry>
66                 <term>logfile</term>
67                 <listitem><para>
68                 Samba log file. log2pcap will try to read the log from stdin 
69                 if the log file is not specified.
70                 </para></listitem>
71             </varlistentry>
73             <varlistentry>
74                 <term>pcap_file</term>
75                 <listitem><para>
76                 Name of the output file to write the pcap (or hexdump) data to.
77                 If this argument is not specified, output data will be written 
78                 to stdout.
79                 </para></listitem>
80             </varlistentry>
82             &stdarg.help;
84         </variablelist>
85 </refsect1>
87 <refsect1>
88         <title>EXAMPLES</title>
90         <para>Extract all network traffic from all samba log files:</para>
92         <para><programlisting>
93                         <prompt>$</prompt> log2pcap &lt; /var/log/* &gt; trace.pcap
94         </programlisting></para>
96         <para>Convert to pcap using text2pcap:</para>
98         <para><programlisting>
99         <prompt>$</prompt> log2pcap -h samba.log | text2pcap -T 139,139 - trace.pcap
100         </programlisting></para>
101 </refsect1>
103 <refsect1>
104         <title>VERSION</title>
106         <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</para>
107 </refsect1>
109 <refsect1>
110         <title>BUGS</title>
112         <para>Only SMB data is extracted from the samba logs, no LDAP, 
113         NetBIOS lookup or other data.</para>
115         <para>The generated TCP and IP headers don't contain a valid 
116         checksum.</para>
117         
118 </refsect1>
121 <refsect1>
122         <title>SEE ALSO</title>
123         <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>text2pcap</refentrytitle>
124         <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ethereal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
125 </refsect1>
127 <refsect1>
128         <title>AUTHOR</title>
129         
130         <para>The original Samba software and related utilities 
131         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
132         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 
133         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
134         
135         <para>This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.</para>
136 </refsect1>
138 </refentry>