.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH U2BOAT 8 "12th December 2014" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME u2boat \- Unified2 Binary Output & Alert Tool .SH SYNOPSIS .B u2boat .RI [-t type] .RI .RI .br .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B u2boat command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. .PP .B u2boat is a utility that converts Snort's Unified2 logs to other formats. It was introduced in Snort due to the lack of support for formats that were present in the Snort 2.8.x releases. Unified2 logs to other formats. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-t type Type specifies the type of output that the program should create. The only current valid option is 'pcap' .SH SEE ALSO .B snort (8) .SH AUTHOR This program was written by Ryan Jordan. This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino , for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).