FIRESTARTER

Section: Maintenance Commands (8) Updated: November 26, 2004 Local index Up

NAME

firestarter - program to manage and observe firewalls

SYNOPSIS

firestarter [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the firestarter command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in html format (see below).

firestarter is a GNOME program that will help you in configuring and monitoring a GNU/Linux firewall using either ipchains or iptables.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

--generate-scripts: Generate firewall scripts from current configuration. If firestarter is updated and you don't want to run the GUI, the scripts in /etc/firestarter are not up-to-date. So you have to run firestarter with this option to update the scripts.
-h, --help: Show summary of options.
--lock: Lock the firewall, blocking all traffic.
-p, --stop: Stop the firewall.
-s, --start: Start the firewall.
--start-hidden: Start firestarter with the GUI not visible.
-v, --version: Show version of program.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ryan M. Golbeck <rmgolbeck@debian.org> and later revised by Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> and Yann Verley <yann.verley@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 22:01:39 GMT, April 16, 2011