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