FWANALOG(1)

✨ FWANALOG(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to fwanalog — the iptables log-file analyzer. this page lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's giving "the Debian crew wrote this one for us" energy. let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

fwanalog — iptables log-file analyzer

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

fwanalog [-h | --help] [-c conffile][-r] [-t ] [-y] [-a IP-addr] [-p
packet]

(yes the spacing is a little feral, no we do not touch it, it's iconic as-is 🎀)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so real talk: this manual page documents briefly the fwanalog command. it was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so this is the manual page. main character behavior, honestly 👑

fwanalog is a program that parses firewall log-files, and analyzes them with analog. that's the whole vibe: it reads your firewall logs and hands them off to analog so you get pretty stats instead of raw chaos.

for a complete list of supported log-files formats, go look at /usr/share/doc/fwanalog/README.Debian — that's where the full tea lives, bestie 🍓

✨ OPTIONS ✨

the program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). a summary of options is included below. for a complete description, see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/fwanalog.

• -h, --help — show summary of options. the classic "help me bestie" move 🫶
• -c conffile — this one shows up in the synopsis, but ngl the original options list doesn't spell out what it does, so i'm not gonna make anything up. it's a conffile. that's the fact. iykyk 🎀
• -r — rotate log cache. not necessary anymore, so lowkey it's a relic. still here though, periodt 💀
• -t — only update statistics for today (e.g. for hourly use). the sep_hosts and sep_packets commands in fwanalog.opts are ignored when you do this. yes, ignored. we don't make the rules 🙈
• -y — like -t, but only for yesterday. time travel but make it firewall stats ⭐
• -a IP-addr — create a separate report for this host. one host, one glow-up, its own report 💅
• -p packet — create a separate report for this packet.

Format: target/protocol/portnumber

e.g. 192.168.0.1/tcp/21 or firewall/udp/137

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/fwnalog/fwanalog.opts — user-changeable options (typo in the path is theirs, not mine, and we are keeping it exactly as written, no cap)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was originally written by Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <charon@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). subsequent updates by Igor Genibel <igenibel@debian.org> and Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>. legends, all three of them 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 it comes to you from the General Commands Manual, under the name FWANALOG(1) — same title up top, same title down here, full circle, we love a symmetrical moment. mwah 🎀✨