firestarter start failure?

[NoOp]

On 06/21/2008 09:57 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:

> Firestarter is not a daemon, it should not show in ps output unless
> gui is open.  It writes to iptables firewall rules, and then is done,
> unless gui is open.

Hmmm....
http://www.fs-security.com/docs/persistence.php

/etc/init.d/firestarter status

should give the status. See: http://www.fs-security.com/docs/faq.php

<quote>
Q: Do I have to start Firestarter after I have rebooted?

Usually, no. When Firestarter is installed from a package, the firewall
is running as a service. You can query the status of the service by
executing /etc/init.d/firestarter status. The excemption to this is
Gentoo users, dial-up users in some cases and persons who have installed
from source and not registered the Firestarter sytem service.
</quote>

Documentation is here:
http://www.fs-security.com/docs.php

Perhaps you are thinking of shorewall?
http://www.shorewall.net/
<quote>
Shorewall is not a daemon. Once Shorewall has configured Netfilter, it's
job is complete and there is no Shorewall code left running in the
system. The /sbin/shorewall program can be used at any time to monitor
the Netfilter firewall.
</quote>