firestarter - program to manage and observe firewalls

firestarter [options]

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.

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.

This program is fully documented in http://www.fs-security.com/docs.php.

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).