.\"Generated by db2man.xsl. Don't modify this, modify the source. .de Sh \" Subsection .br .if t .Sp .ne 5 .PP \fB\\$1\fR .PP .. .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Ip \" List item .br .ie \\n(.$>=3 .ne \\$3 .el .ne 3 .IP "\\$1" \\$2 .. .TH "LOG2PCAP" 1 "" "" "" .SH NAME log2pcap \- Extract network traces from Samba log files .SH "SYNOPSIS" .ad l .hy 0 .HP 9 \fBlog2pcap\fR [\-h] [\-q] [logfile] [pcap_file] .ad .hy .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This tool is part of the \fBSamba\fR(7) suite\&. .PP \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\&. .PP The 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\&. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP \-h If this parameter is specified the output file will be a hex dump, in a format that is readable by the text2pcap utility\&. .TP \-q Be quiet\&. No warning messages about missing or incomplete data will be given\&. .TP logfile Samba log file\&. log2pcap will try to read the log from stdin if the log file is not specified\&. .TP pcap_file Name 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\&. .TP \-h|\-\-help Print a summary of command line options\&. .SH "EXAMPLES" .PP Extract all network traffic from all samba log files: .PP .nf $ log2pcap < /var/log/* > trace\&.pcap .fi .PP Convert to pcap using text2pcap: .PP .nf $ log2pcap \-h samba\&.log | text2pcap \-T 139,139 \- trace\&.pcap .fi .SH "VERSION" .PP This man page is correct for version 3\&.0 of the Samba suite\&. .SH "BUGS" .PP Only SMB data is extracted from the samba logs, no LDAP, NetBIOS lookup or other data\&. .PP The generated TCP and IP headers don't contain a valid checksum\&. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fBtext2pcap\fR(1), \fBethereal\fR(1) .SH "AUTHOR" .PP The 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\&. .PP This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij\&.