pcap log: document multi option

Add yaml documentation for new 'multi' option.
pull/1045/head
Victor Julien 11 years ago
parent be1979b2f9
commit 9ec23bd593

@ -169,12 +169,29 @@ outputs:
- pcap-info:
enabled: no
# Packet log... log packets in pcap format. 2 modes of operation: "normal"
# and "sguil".
# Packet log... log packets in pcap format. 3 modes of operation: "normal"
# "multi" and "sguil".
#
# In normal mode a pcap file "filename" is created in the default-log-dir,
# or are as specified by "dir". In Sguil mode "dir" indicates the base directory.
# In this base dir the pcaps are created in th directory structure Sguil expects:
# or are as specified by "dir".
# In multi mode, a file is created per thread. This will perform much
# better, but will create multiple files where 'normal' would create one.
# In multi mode the filename takes a few special variables:
# - %n -- thread number
# - %i -- thread id
# - %t -- timestamp (secs or secs.usecs based on 'ts-format'
# E.g. filename: pcap.%n.%t
#
# Note that it's possible to use directories, but the directories are not
# created by Suricata. E.g. filename: pcaps/%n/log.%s will log into the
# per thread directory.
#
# Also note that the limit and max-files settings are enforced per thread.
# So the size limit when using 8 threads with 1000mb files and 2000 files
# is: 8*1000*2000 ~ 16TiB.
#
# In Sguil mode "dir" indicates the base directory. In this base dir the
# pcaps are created in th directory structure Sguil expects:
#
# $sguil-base-dir/YYYY-MM-DD/$filename.<timestamp>
#

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