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.
- -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 <[email protected]> and later revised by Rene Engelhard <[email protected]> and Yann Verley <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).