tail-comodo

DESCRIPTION

This program offers a command line interface for viewing and monitoring the firewall event log of the Comodo Internet Security Pro and Comodo Firewall programs.

The user interface is heavily influenced by POSIX tail command implementations in order to be already familiar with users.

USAGE

usage: tail-comodo [OPTION]

Tails the Comodo Firewall event log

Options:
  -a    Show all firewall events
  -f    Follow the log, displaying events as they occur
  -h    Display this help
  -N    Show the last N event, where N is positive number
  -s N  Sleep interval between log polling. Default is 1 second.
  -v    Verbose, print some internal info during execution
  -V    Show the version of the program

Note: The environment variable TAIL_COMODO_FWDB overrides the default location
      for the database file to use.

OUTPUT

The output when tailing the event log consists of a number of records with identical fields. Each line is a separate event record and has the following fields: TIMESTAMP ACTION DIRECTION PROTOCOL SOURCE_IP SOURCE_PORT -> TARGET_IP TARGET_PORT PID PATH

• Timestamp Point in time where the event happened.
• Action Action that Comodo took, which tend to be either to block the traffic or ask the user what to do.
• Direction Either IN or OUT, the direction of the traffic.
• Protocol The protocol used for the connection attempt.
• Pid Process ID of the program that triggered the event
• Path The executable file for the process ID.

Note that I probably haven't yet managed to map all actions and protocols to readable names, and anything I've missed will turn out as a question mark (?) in the corresponding field.

If you run into a situation where you find a type that isn't mapped, let me know and I'll add a proper translation for it.

Example output using tail-comodo -1 for listing only the last event:

2013-07-12 18:50:19 Blocked OUT IGMP 192.168.0.2 0 -> 224.0.0.252 0 5236 C:\app\Process Explorer\procexp64.exe

COMPILING

Prerequisites

• C-Compiler, I recommend using MinGW and have tested it with gcc 4.7.2
• GNU Make, I used version 3.80 from Cygwin, but most any should do.
• SQLite3, will be downloaded automatically by the makefile if it isn't found, and put in the vendor directory.

For automatic downloading and unpacking of sqlite, you would also need the following programs on the PATH.

• unzip Any version should do, but I use 6.0 that came with cygwin.
• wget Again, any should do, from cygwin I got version 1.13.4

With the pre-reqs in place, simply run make to build the program.