firewall?

[Petri Pennanen]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 23:13 -0400, de Selby wrote:
> > [GR]   I think someone has already pointed out that you can download
> > Firestarter using apt-get or synaptic. It's really easy to configure (it
> > uses a wizard) and gives you all kinds of info on who's hittin' on you
> > from the outside world. Try it, it's cool.
> > 
> 
> Does anyone get the: Child terminated with 1 status  error when
> starting Firestarter from the Applications menu? Know a way to fix it?
> (Seems to work fine through the root terminal however, but this means
> keeping the terminal up).
> 

Firestarter probably needs root priviligies to start. That what the
message means at least. Try setting it to start with sudo. Right click
on the meny entry -> Properties -> Command: Add "gksudo" before the
entry for firestarter. Now you should be promted for password before
starting firestarter.