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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.

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

EXAMPLES

   Extract all network traffic from all samba log files:

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

   Convert to pcap using text2pcap:

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

VERSION

   This man page is correct for version 3 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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