---
name: "firestarter"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "firestarter"
version: "0.8.2-3woody1"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/firestarter"
---

# firestarter(1)

program to manage and observe firewalls

## NAME

firestarter - program to manage and observe firewalls

## SYNOPSIS

**firestarter** \[*options*\] *files*...\
 **bar** \[*options*\] *files*...

## 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

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **--version**

  Show version of program.

## SEE ALSO

This program is fully documented in HTML in /usr/share/gnome/help/firestarter/C.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ryan M. Golbeck \<rmgolbeck@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).