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ARNO_FWFILTER(1) ARNO_FWFILTER(1)

NAME

arno-fwfilter - a filter script to make iptables firewall logs more readable for humans

SYNOPSIS

arno-fwfilter [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

arno-fwfilter is a pipe filter script to make the firewall-log better readable. Some usage examples are:

arno-fwfilter < logfile
tail --follow <logfile> | arno-fwfilter >/dev/tty10 &

OPTIONS

Print the available options.
Disable resolving of IPs to names.
Use basic HTML to format the output.
Disable to (try to) obtain the IP's geographical location. By default, http://www.hostip.info/ is visited to get this information.
Disable the use of colors in the output.
Put all information about an event in a single line

SEE ALSO

iptables(8), arno-iptables-firewall(8)

The https://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/ web site.

AUTHOR

arno-fwfilter was written by Arno van Amersfoort <arnova@rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl>.

This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

September 2005 Michael Hanke