Why does Firestarter not start on boot?

[Derek Broughton]

Nik wrote:

> In article <46E2763A.3080108 at ntlworld.com>,
>    Graham Watkins <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> I've added it to start up services but it doesn't make any difference.
> 
>> It worked OK with Dapper but now I've installed Feisty, I can only start
>> it manually which is a pain.
> 
>> Anybody else had this problem and managed to solve it?
> 
> Why would you want it to start at boot?

Because you start services, that may listen to the net, on boot?  Actually,
I agree with you in principle - it shouldn't actually start from the boot
scripts. A firewall should be restarted whenever a network connection is
made, which means you'd want a script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ (if
possible) or .../if-up.d/, but it should certainly start before you log in
to X.
-- 
derek