NFACCT(8)                                                            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  Delete all unused accounting objects.

       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.  json  That displays the
              output in JSON 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>.

                               December 30, 2011                     NFACCT(8)