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20.TH "LOG2PCAP" 1 "" "" ""
21.SH NAME
22log2pcap \- Extract network traces from Samba log files
23.SH "SYNOPSIS"
24.ad l
25.hy 0
26.HP 9
27\fBlog2pcap\fR [\-h] [\-q] [logfile] [pcap_file]
28.ad
29.hy
30
31.SH "DESCRIPTION"
32
33.PP
34This tool is part of the \fBsamba\fR(7) suite\&.
35
36.PP
37\fBlog2pcap\fR reads in a samba log file and generates a pcap file (readable by most sniffers, such as ethereal or tcpdump) based on the packet dumps in the log file\&.
38
39.PP
40The log file must have a \fIlog level\fR of at least \fB5\fR to get the SMB header/parameters right, \fB10\fR to get the first 512 data bytes of the packet and \fB50\fR to get the whole packet\&.
41
42.SH "OPTIONS"
43
44.TP
45\-h
46If this parameter is specified the output file will be a hex dump, in a format that is readable by the text2pcap utility\&.
47
48.TP
49\-q
50Be quiet\&. No warning messages about missing or incomplete data will be given\&.
51
52.TP
53logfile
54Samba log file\&. log2pcap will try to read the log from stdin if the log file is not specified\&.
55
56.TP
57pcap_file
58Name of the output file to write the pcap (or hexdump) data to\&. If this argument is not specified, output data will be written to stdout\&.
59
60.TP
61\-h|\-\-help
62Print a summary of command line options\&.
63
64.SH "EXAMPLES"
65
66.PP
67Extract all network traffic from all samba log files:
68
69.PP
70
71
72.nf
73
74 $ log2pcap < /var/log/* > trace\&.pcap
75
76.fi
77
78
79.PP
80Convert to pcap using text2pcap:
81
82.PP
83
84
85.nf
86
87 $ log2pcap \-h samba\&.log | text2pcap \-T 139,139 \- trace\&.pcap
88
89.fi
90
91
92.SH "VERSION"
93
94.PP
95This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
96
97.SH "BUGS"
98
99.PP
100Only SMB data is extracted from the samba logs, no LDAP, NetBIOS lookup or other data\&.
101
102.PP
103The generated TCP and IP headers don't contain a valid checksum\&.
104
105.SH "SEE ALSO"
106
107.PP
108\fBtext2pcap\fR(1), \fBethereal\fR(1)
109
110.SH "AUTHOR"
111
112.PP
113The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell\&. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed\&.
114
115.PP
116This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij\&.
117
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