---
name: "firestarter"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "firestarter"
version: "1.0.3-11"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/firestarter/8"
---

# firestarter(8)

program to manage and observe firewalls

## 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).