A filter script to make iptables firewall logs more readable for humans
arno-fwfilter [OPTIONS]
arno-fwfilter is a pipe filter script to make the firewall-log better readable. Some usage examples are:
Static firewall log filtering:
arno-fwfilter < logfile
Realtime firewall logging on tty10:
tail --follow <logfile> | arno-fwfilter >/dev/tty10 &
--help, -h
Print the available options.
--html-output, -o
Use basic HTML to format the output
--no-locations, -l
Disable to (try to) obtain the IP's geographical location. By default, http://www.hostip.info/ is visited to get this information.
--no-colors, -c
Disable the use of colors in the output.
--single-line, -s
Put all information about an event in a single line
iptables(8), arno-iptables-firewall(8)
The http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/ web site.
arno-fwfilter was written by Arno van Amersfoort <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).