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.TH SPECTER 8 "March 28, 2005" "Linux Netfilter"
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.SH NAME
specter \- netfilter/iptables ULOG daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B specter [options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B specter
connects to the netlink device of the Linux kernel and reads messages
from the netfilter that get queued with the iptables ULOG target. For
this to work you have to compile the ULOG target into your kernel or
load the respective module.
.PP
The received messages can be logged into files or into a mySQL or
PostgreSQL database. Possibilities are based on dynamically loadable
plugins, which are shipped along with specter package.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -d, --daemon
fork specter into background (start as daemon)
.TP
.B -c <filename>, --configfile <filename>
use <filename> as configuration file instead of
.I /etc/specter.conf
.TP
.B -u <username>, --uid <username>
This option tells specter to drop its privileges and run as given user.
.TP
.B -g <group>, --gid <group>
This option tells specter to drop its privileges and run as given group.
.TP
.B -h, --help
show usage information
.TP
.B -V, --version
show version information and copyright
.SH FILES
.I /etc/specter.conf
.br
.I /var/log/specter.log
.SH SEE ALSO
specter.conf(5), iptables(8).
.PP
Apart from manuals there's more documentation in
.IR /usr/doc/specter-1.4/ .

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Joerg Wendland <joergland@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Modified by
Michal Kwiatkowski <ruby@joker.linuxstuff.pl> for specter.