Firestarter

[Robert Holtzman]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:13:55PM -0700, Jim Kielman wrote:

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> 
> If you are using Firestarter to watch the firewall logs, you're
> doing it wrong. Firestarter needs to be run as root which is a
> security risk, it is only meant /var/log/auth.logto be run to set the firewall rules
> and then shut down. The firewall rules don't disappear once
> Firestarter is shut down.

For a while I ran it as user by editing /etc/sudoers. As soon as I saw
what was being blocked I deleted the entry.

> 
> Personally I don't care where access attempts come from as long as
> they are blocked. Watching blocked attempts just makes me paranoid,
> so I don't bother.

It's interesting.

> 
> All blocked access attempts are logged to /var/log/auth.log, you can
> view the log via the Log File Viewer, if you are really curious.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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