NETRAFD(8)                                             NETRAFD(8)

NAME

       NETRAFD - Network Traffic Analyzing Daemon

SYNOPSIS

       netrafd [ -c ‹config_file› | --config ‹config_file› ]
               [ -h | --help ] [ -N | --no-daemonize ]
               [ --verbose | --vv ] [ -v | --version ]

DESCRIPTION

       Netrafd is a  multithreaded  daemon that capture  packets
       from interfaces  installed  on the local machine, process
       them and create statistics, depentant on the user defined
       filters.

OPTIONS

       -c     Set the configuration file path and name to the one
              given in parameter same as --config

       -h     Print the netrafd help screen, same as --help

       -N     Do not daemonize netrafd, same as --no-daemonize

       --verbose
              Run netrafd in verbose mode, in this  mode netrafd
              will print  out  information  about  its state and
              warning messages to the stderr

       --vv   Run netrafd  in 'more' verbose  mode, in this mode
              netrafd will print out information about its state
              and about the state of shared memory to the stderr

       -v     Print information about netrafd version, same as
              --version

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

       --show-writer
              Debug option only, displays dump of  choosen writer
              memory every  tenth of the  second.  Parameter is a
              writer name from netrafd.conf. The only way to stop
              this debug  is  to  restart  netrafd, so it is best
              used with -N option.

SIGNALS

       SIGHUP              - make netrafd reread its config files
       SIGINT, SIGTERM     - shutdown netrafd

FILES

       [/etc/netraf/]netrafd.conf - netrafd configuration file
       [/etc/netraf/]filters.conf - filter definitions file
       [/var/log/netraf/]*.log - netrafd statistics
       [/usr/local/bin/]netrafd - program file

SEE ALSO

       netrafd.conf(5), filters.conf(5)

AUTHORS

       M.K. M.S. T.J.

                            27.05.2005                 NETRAFD(8)

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