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daemonlogger(1) [debian man page]

DAEMONLOGGER(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   DAEMONLOGGER(1)

NAME

       daemonlogger - simple network logger and soft tap daemon

SYNOPSIS

       daemonlogger [Options]

DESCRIPTION

       daemonlogger is a simple network packet logger and soft tap daemon. It is able to log packets to file or mirror to another interface.

OPTIONS

   --help
       Show summary of options.

   -v
       Show version of program.

   -c <count>
       Log <count> packets and exit.

   -d
       Run as a daemon.

   -f <bpf file>
       Load bpf filter from file.

   -F
       Flush the pcap buffer for each packet.

   -g <group id>
       Set group to <group id>.

   -u <user name>
       Set user to <user name>.

   -i <interface>
       Set interface to grab data from to <interface>.

   -l <path>
       Set log directory to <path>.

   -m <count>
       Generate <count> number of log files and exit.

   -n <name>
       Set ouput file prefix to <name>.

   -o <interface>
       Disable logging, instead mirror traffic from -i <interface> to -o <interface>.

   -p <pidfile>
       Set PID filename to <pidfile>.

   -P <path>
       Set PID path to <path>.

   -r
       Activate ringbuffer mode.

   -R <pcap file>
       Read packets from <pcap file>

   -s <bytes>
       Automatically roll over the log file after <bytes>.

   -S <snaplen>
       Set number of bytes per packet to capture to <snaplen>.

   -t <seconds>
       Rollover  the  log  file  on time intervals.  Append an 'm' to rollover on minute boundaries, 'h' to rollover on hour boundaries and 'd' to
       rollover on day boundaries.  If no interval selector is used then the default rollover interval is in seconds.  For example, "-t 60"  rolls
       the  log  file  over  every  60	seconds  and  "-t  2h"	rolls  the  log  file over every two hours at the top of the hour.  In the case of
       minute/hour/day-based rollovers, the will round to the next highest hour.  For example, if the program is told to rollover  every  2  hours
       and is started 38 minutes into the current hour it will add 2 to the current hour and rollover as scheduled at the top of the hour at <cur-
       rent hour> + 2.	If the program was started at 13:38 it would roll over the logfile at 15:00.

   -T <chroot dir>
       Chroot daemonlogger to <chroot dir>

   -z
       Select log file pruning behavior.  Omitting this switch results in the default mode being used where the oldest log  file  in  the  logging
       directory is pruned.  Setting the -z switch changes the behavior so that Daemonlogger will prune the oldest file from its current instanti-
       ation and leave files from older runs in the same logging directory alone

RESOURCES

       The daemonlogger README can be found at /usr/share/doc/daemonlogger/README.gz
       The daemonlogger homepage can be found at <http://www.snort.org/users/roesch/Site/Daemonlogger/Daemonlogger.html>

AUTHOR

       daemonlogger was written by Martin Roesch <roesch@sourcefire.com>.

       This manual page was written by Chris Taylor <ctaylor@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								 December 08, 2009						   DAEMONLOGGER(1)

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NAME

       rotatelogs - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server

SYNOPSIS

       rotatelogs logfile rotationtime [offset]

DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

       logfile
	      The  path plus basename of the logfile.  If logfile includes any Otherwise, the suffix .nnnnnnnnnn is automatically added and is the
	      time in seconds.	Both formats compute the start time from the beginning of the current period.

       rotationtime
	      The rotation time in seconds.

       offset The number of minutes offset from UTC.  If omitted, zero is assumed and UTC is used.  For example, to use local time in the zone UTC
	      -5 hours, specify a value of -300 for this argument.

PORTABILITY

       The  following logfile format string substitutions should be supported by all strftime(3) implementations, see the strftime(3) man page for
       library-specific extensions.

       %A     full weekday name (localized)

       %a     3-character weekday name (localized)

       %B     full month name (localized)

       %b     3-character month name (localized)

       %c     date and time (localized)

       %d     2-digit day of month

       %H     2-digit hour (24 hour clock)

       %I     2-digit hour (12 hour clock)

       %j     3-digit day of year

       %M     2-digit minute

       %m     2-digit month

       %p     am/pm of 12 hour clock (localized)

       %S     2-digit second

       %U     2-digit week of year (Sunday first day of week)

       %W     2-digit week of year (Monday first day of week)

       %w     1-digit weekday (Sunday first day of week)

       %X     time (localized)

       %x     date (localized)

       %Y     4-digit year

       %y     2-digit year

       %Z     time zone name

       %%     literal `%'

SEE ALSO

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