modsec-sdbm-util

This utility was created in order to make easy the maintenance of the SDBM files which stores ModSecurity persistent collections.

List of options:

• -k, shrink: Removes all the expired elements as long as others not well formated items from the database.
• -n, new: Extract valid items of a database to a new one. Output will be: /tmp/new_db.[ip,pag]
• -D, directory: Used with -n, expects to receive a directory path in which the the resulting new_db.[ip,pag] files are placed.
• -s, status: Print information about the table, such us the amount of items, amount of expired items and also the amount of malformed items that may be using space;
• -d, dump: Dump all database items to 'stdout';
• -u, unpack: Interpret the content of the value as ModSecurity does, printing the results to the console. (This does not make sense without the -d option);
• -x, expired: Print only the expired elements. (As unpack, this item does not make sense without the dump option)
• -r, remove: Expects to receive a key as a paramter to be removed;
• -v, verbose: Some extra information about what this utility is doing;
• -h, help: this message.

Build Prerequisities

Fedora

# dnf install libtool automake gcc apr-devel apr-util-devel

RHEL

# yum install libtool automake gcc apr-devel apr-util-devel

Build instructions

# ./autogen.sh
# ./configure
# make
# ./modsec-sdbm-util