nfacct (8)


NAME

nfacct - command line tool to create/retrieve/delete accounting objects

SYNOPSIS

nfacct command [name] [options]

DESCRIPTION

nfacct is the command line tool that allows to manipulate the Netfilter's extended accounting infrastructure.

COMMANDS

These commands specify the action that nfacct performs. Only one of them can be specified at any given time.
list
List the existing accounting object in table.
restore
Restore accounting object table by reading from stdin. Input format is the one used as output by the list command.
add
Add new accounting object.
delete
Delete accounting object.
get
Get existing accounting object.
flush
Flush the entire table.
version
Displays the version information.
help
Displays the help message.

OPTIONS

This tool also allows a couple of options with the get and list commands that are:
reset
That atomically obtains and resets the counters.
xml
That displays the output in XML format.

SEE ALSO

iptables(8)

BUGS

Please, report them to netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org or file a bug in Netfilter's bugzilla (https://bugzilla.netfilter.org).

AUTHORS

Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote and maintains the nfacct tool.

Man page written by Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>.