log2pcap(1)

LOG2PCAP(1)              USER COMMANDS                LOG2PCAP(1)

NAME

     log2pcap - Extract network traces from Samba log files

SYNOPSIS

     log2pcap [-h] [-q] [logfile] [pcap_file]

DESCRIPTION

     This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

     log2pcap 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.

     The log file must have a log level of at least 5 to get  the
     SMB  header/parameters  right,  10 to get the first 512 data
     bytes of the packet and 50 to get the whole packet.

OPTIONS

     -h If this parameter is specified the output file will be  a
        hex  dump,  in a format that is readable by the text2pcap
        utility.

     -q Be quiet. No warning messages about missing or incomplete
        data will be given.

     logfile
        Samba log file. log2pcap will try to read  the  log  from
        stdin if the log file is not specified.

     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.

     -h|--help
        Print a summary of command line options.

EXAMPLES

     Extract all network traffic from all samba log files:

                    $ log2pcap < /var/log/* > trace.pcap
          .fi

     Convert to pcap using text2pcap:

          $ log2pcap -h samba.log | text2pcap -T 139,139 - trace.pcap
          .fi

VERSION

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LOG2PCAP(1)              USER COMMANDS                LOG2PCAP(1)

     This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

BUGS

     Only SMB data is extracted from the  samba  logs,  no  LDAP,
     NetBIOS lookup or other data.

     The generated TCP and  IP  headers  don't  contain  a  valid
     checksum.

SEE ALSO

     text2pcap(1), ethereal(1)

AUTHOR

     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.

     This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

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