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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Radu Spineanu
  • Date: 2005-06-02 20:12:57 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1 upstream) (2.1.1 sarge)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20050602201257-jv0qdk3hjhpdf04b
Tags: 1:0.68-2
Fixed a bashism in init script (closes: #311568)

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<arg>-d<replaceable> debug_level</replaceable></arg>
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<arg>-f<replaceable> filter_fname</replaceable></arg>
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<arg>-F<replaceable> filter_definition</replaceable></arg>
 
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<arg>-v<replaceable> variable binding</replaceable></arg>
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<arg>-z<replaceable> z_level</replaceable></arg>
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</cmdsynopsis>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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<para>
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The <command>flow-nfilter</command> utility will filter flows based on
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user selectable criteria.  Filters are composed of primitives and 
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a definition.  Definitions contain match lines grouped to form
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logical AND and OR operations on the flow using the selected primitives.
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A definition may contain the invert command which will invert the
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result of the evaluation.
 
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user selectable criteria.  Filters are defined in a configuration file
 
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and are composed of primitives and a definition.  Definitions contain
 
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match lines grouped to form logical AND and OR operations on the flow
 
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using the selected primitives.  A definition may contain the invert
 
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command which will invert the result of the evaluation.
 
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</para>
 
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Words in the configuration file of the form @VAR or @{VAR:default} will be
 
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expanded at run-time by setting variable names with the -v option.
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</para>
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Filter primitives begin with the filter-primitive keyword followed by
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</varlistentry>
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<term>-v<replaceable> variable binding</replaceable></term>
 
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<listitem>
 
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<para>
 
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Set a variable FOO=bar.
 
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<term>-z<replaceable> z_level</replaceable></term>
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<para>
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<title>FILES</title>
 
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  Configuration files:
 
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    Symbols - <filename>@localstatedir@/sym/*</filename>.
 
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    Tag - <filename>@localstatedir@/cfg/tag.cfg</filename>.
 
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    Filter - <filename>@localstatedir@/cfg/filter.cfg</filename>.
 
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</para>
 
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<title>BUGS</title>
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None known.