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This change was suggested by Andrew Bartlett on the samba-technical mailing list. Karolin Autobuild-User(master): Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org> Autobuild-Date(master): Mon Sep 3 23:35:38 CEST 2012 on sn-devel-104
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<refentry id="log2pcap.1">
+
+<refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>log2pcap</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="version">3.6</refmiscinfo>
+</refmeta>
+
+
+<refnamediv>
+ <refname>log2pcap</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Extract network traces from Samba log files</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>log2pcap</command>
+ <arg choice="opt">-h</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-q</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">logfile</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">pcap_file</arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+
+ <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
+
+ <para><command>log2pcap</command> 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.</para>
+
+ <para>The log file must have a <parameter>log level</parameter>
+ of at least <constant>5</constant> to get the SMB header/parameters
+ right, <constant>10</constant> to get the first 512 data bytes of the
+ packet and <constant>50</constant> to get the whole packet.
+ </para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-h</term>
+ <listitem><para>If this parameter is
+ specified the output file will be a
+ hex dump, in a format that is readable
+ by the <application>text2pcap</application> utility.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-q</term>
+ <listitem><para>Be quiet. No warning messages about missing
+ or incomplete data will be given.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>logfile</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Samba log file. log2pcap will try to read the log from stdin
+ if the log file is not specified.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>pcap_file</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ 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.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ &stdarg.help;
+
+ </variablelist>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>EXAMPLES</title>
+
+ <para>Extract all network traffic from all samba log files:</para>
+
+ <para><programlisting>
+ <prompt>$</prompt> log2pcap &lt; /var/log/* &gt; trace.pcap
+ </programlisting></para>
+
+ <para>Convert to pcap using text2pcap:</para>
+
+ <para><programlisting>
+ <prompt>$</prompt> log2pcap -h samba.log | text2pcap -T 139,139 - trace.pcap
+ </programlisting></para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>VERSION</title>
+
+ <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>BUGS</title>
+
+ <para>Only SMB data is extracted from the samba logs, no LDAP,
+ NetBIOS lookup or other data.</para>
+
+ <para>The generated TCP and IP headers don't contain a valid
+ checksum.</para>
+
+</refsect1>
+
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>text2pcap</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ethereal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1>
+ <title>AUTHOR</title>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+
+ <para>This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.</para>
+</refsect1>
+
+</refentry>