Why does Firestarter not start on boot?

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 12:18 +0100, Graham Watkins wrote:
> That's what I meant to write - sorry about the confusion.  However it 
> doesn't seem to work.
> 
> When I check after bootup with the command:  sudo 
> /etc/init.d/firestarter status, I am informed that Firewall is
> stopped.
> There's obviously something else needs fixing.
> 
Oops, sorry for creating confusion, I misread your email as fire_fox_,
in which case adding it the the startup programs in the session would be
the right way to go.

For fire_starter_ it is different, and possibly depending on which
distribution you run.

Did you check that there is not only a script /etc/init.d/firestarter,
but that the script is also actually run anywhere? For example, on my
machine (Gutsy), it would be run
by /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/50firestarter

You can perform "dpkg -L firestarter | grep etc" to find which startup
script is installed by the firestarter package.