imsniff(8) [debian man page]

IMSNIFF(8)																IMSNIFF(8)

NAME

       imsniff - Simple program to log Instant Messaging activity on the network

SYNOPSIS

       imsniff [-cdchatdir] [-dddebugdir] [-v*verbose] [-ppromisc] [-ddaemonize] [-offsetdata_offset] [-helpN/A] [interface]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the imsniff commands.

       This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has
       documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       The imsniff can be used to log IM activity on the network. It uses libpcap to capture packets and analyzes them, logging conversation,
       contact lists, etc.

       Users connecting after imsniff is started can get pretty good results, including complete contact lists and events (displaying a name
       change, for example). Users already connected will be able to get the conversations, but will miss the other information.

       The only required parameter is the interface name to listen to. This can be any interface that libpcap supports. A sample
       imsniff.conf.sample file is included.

OPTIONS

       --help
	  N/A. Display help.

       -cd
	  Directory where conversations will be stored.

       -dd
	  debugdir. Directory where logs will be stored. These logs contain debug information as well as certain MSN events.

       -v*
	  verbose. Debug level. The more v's (or higher the number in the config file), the more info that is dumped. For regular usage, use 1 or
	  2. More than that will dump a lot of useless stuff.

       -p
	  promisc. Put the device in promiscuous mode.

       -d
	  data_offset. See below.

       interface
	  Interface to use.

DATA OFFSET

       The offset (in this context) is the length of the datalink header when capturing packets. This is an important number because we need to
       skip this header when processing packets. For ethernet, this number is 14, and imsniff knows about it. If you use a different interface,
       you might have to help imsniff by providing the number yourself. For example:

       imsniff ppp0 -offset 4

       How do you figure out this number? The easiest way is just try different numbers (and keep your own MSN connection busy (type something)
       until imsniff starts dumping conversations. The number is never high anyway. A few tries should always do.

       If you have to use this, once it's working please drop me a note telling me what interface type imsniff reported, and the offset you used.
       I will add this to the code so next versions don't have to be tuned manually.

STATUS

       Beta version. Seems to work decently.

SUPPORTED PROTOCOLS

       For now, only MSN. Others could follow.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Amaya Rodrigo Sastre <amaya@debian.org> for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission
       is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

       Amaya Rodrigo Sastre
	  Author.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006 Amaya Rodrigo Sastre

								 December 9, 2006							IMSNIFF(8)

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S2DISK(8)                                                             s2disk                                                             S2DISK(8)

NAME

       s2disk - program to suspend to disk (hibernate)

SYNOPSIS

       s2disk [-h, --help] [-V, --version] [-f, --config config_file] [-r, --resume_device device] [-o, --resume_offset offset]
              [-s, --image_size size] [-P, --parameter parameter]

       resume

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the s2disk, s2both and resume commands.

       This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       s2disk is a program that will save the state of the whole system to disk and power off your system. After restarting your system it will be
       put back in the exact system state you left it (this is sometimes called hibernation).

       s2both will do precisly the same as s2disk except that it will not power off the system, but will suspend it to ram (put the system in S3
       mode). This has the advantage that resume will be faster, with the disadvantage that you still use batteries. If they batteries do deplete,
       you still have the system state saved to disk and can resume without data loss. The s2both command also inherits all command line arguments
       from s2ram.

       You will need to set up an initramfs which calls the resume program for this to work. If you use an Debian(TM) kernel package which was
       made with the --initrd option and you use mkinitramfs-tools, this package should include the necessary parts on your initramfs.

       The uswsusp system supports encrypting the image written to disk and features a splash system, see uswsusp.conf(8) for more information

OPTIONS

       -f, --config [file]
           Specify alternate configuration file.

       -h, --help
           Display help.

       -r, --resume_device [device]
           Device that contains swap area.

       -o, --resume_offset [offset]
           Offset of swap file in resume device.

       -s, --image_size [size]
           Desired size of the image.

       -P, --parameter [key=value]
           Override any config file parameter (see uswsusp.conf(8)).

       For the meaning and use of the resume_size, resume_offset and image_size options see uswsusp.conf(8).

SEE ALSO

       uswsusp.conf(8), suspend-keygen(8), s2ram(8)

       For more information see the HOWTO and the README

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Tim Dijkstra tim@famdijkstra.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is
       granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
       published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

AUTHOR

       TimTim DijkstraDijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org> <tim@famdijkstra.org>
           Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006 Tim Dijkstra

uswsusp                                                            juni 24, 2006                                                         S2DISK(8)

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