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.TH FIRESTARTER 8 "November 26, 2004"
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.SH NAME
firestarter \- program to manage and observe firewalls
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B firestarter
.RI [ options ]
.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B 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).
.PP
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\fBfirestarter\fP is a GNOME program that will help you in configuring
and monitoring a GNU/Linux firewall using either ipchains or iptables.
.SH OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-\-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.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-\-lock
Lock the firewall, blocking all traffic.
.TP
.B \-p, \-\-stop
Stop the firewall.
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-start
Start the firewall.
.TP
.B \-\-start\-hidden
Start firestarter with the GUI not visible.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
Show version of program.

.SH SEE ALSO
.br
This program is fully documented in http://www.fs-security.com/docs/.
.SH 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).