Firewall

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) y.lesaint at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 00:25:24 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 19:58 -0400, Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> On 8/3/05, Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 17:00 -0400, Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> > > So, what's the solution if someone gets stuck or can't do it right? It
> > > would be scary to run OS that's plugged in to the Internet 24hrs a day
> > > to run without a firewall
> > 
> >   Use firestarter, it's very simple and effective.
>  
> Installed it and launched it. The question is, would I need to launch
> it every time I reboot the PC or would it launch by itself?

  No, you just run the graphical app when you want to change your
firewall settings or want to _see_ it running. Once you've configured
it, it will be running silently automatically at boot.
  See the thread "how to start firestarter automatically at boot" which
started on ubuntu-users mailing list on july 21.

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Regards.

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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