log2pcap
(1)
Name
log2pcap - Extract network traces from Samba log files
Synopsis
log2pcap [-h] [-q] [logfile] [pcap_file]
Description
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
Convert to pcap using text2pcap:
$ log2pcap -h samba.log | text2pcap -T 139,139 - trace.pcap
VERSION
Samba 3.6 Last change: 09/18/2013 1
User Commands LOG2PCAP(1)
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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Availability | service/network/samba |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------+
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.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-3.6.23.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.samba.org/.
Samba 3.6 Last change: 09/18/2013 2