firestarter shuts down intermittently

[Derek Broughton]

Default User wrote:

> Does anyone know how to fix this:
> 
> Firestarter shuts down by itself after a few minutes, although iptables
> -L seems to show that the "firewall" is still running.
> 
> This seems to happen after clicking the tiny drop-down list triangle in
> front of the words "Active connections" on the "Status" tab of the
> Firestarter GUI.
> 
> I would really like to cure this problem, since I think it would be very
> helpful to be able to alt-tab to Firestarter at any time, to observe who
> specifically is communicating with my computer, in real time.

"firestarter", the gui, is just a configuration tool for the firewall.  It
runs a script to create the iptables rules that make up the actual
firewall, and can reasonably exit immediately on completion.  I'm not sure
that there _should_ be any continuous daemon running.  I haven't used it
for years, so I don't know what "monitoring" it can do, but the actual
firewalling can be logged to syslog, so I would think "monitoring" is just
a matter of excerpting syslog.
-- 
derek