MSGSNARF(8)

💬 MSGSNARF — the tea-spilling one (section 8, System Manager's Manual) ✨

okay bestie, sit down, because this little icon is about to read other people's DMs for you 💅 no cap, that's literally the whole job.

🌸 NAME 🌸

msgsnarf — sniff chat messages 👀💬

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

msgsnarf [-i interface | -p pcapfile] [[-v] pattern [expression]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie. msgsnarf records selected messages from chat sessions. Which chats, you ask? The lineup is giving 2000s nostalgia realness:

• AOL Instant Messenger
• ICQ 2000
• IRC
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo Messenger

so yeah, it's out here pulling selected messages out of those chat sessions and logging them. it's giving surveillance but make it vintage 💀✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -i interface — tell it which interface to listen on. pick your network card, girl 🫶
• -p pcapfile — instead of sniffing live off the network, it'll process packets from the PCAP capture file you name here. offline mode, we love to see it 📁
• -v — "Versus" mode 🥊 it inverts the sense of matching, so instead of grabbing the messages that match, you get the ones that don't match. spicy, contrary, main character energy fr fr
• pattern — your regular expression for message matching. this is how you tell it what to look for 🔍
• expression — a tcpdump(8) filter expression that picks which traffic to sniff in the first place. narrow it down, queen 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• dsniff(8)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Dug Song <dugsong@monkey.org> — the legend himself, periodt 🎀

⚠️ heads up bestie: sniffing chat traffic means you're looking at other people's conversations. this is a network forensics tool, not a cute little toy. use it responsibly, iykyk 🙈

and that's the whole page, babe 🦋 this was MSGSNARF(8) from the System Manager's Manual — section 8, system administration tools, exactly where it belongs. mwah, slay, go read dsniff(8) next 💅✨