FIRESTARTER(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    FIRESTARTER(8)

NAME

       firestarter - program to manage and observe firewalls

SYNOPSIS

       firestarter [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the firestarter command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in html format (see below).

       firestarter is a GNOME program that will help you in configuring and monitoring a GNU/Linux firewall using either ipchains or iptables.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.

       --generate-scripts
	      Generate	firewall  scripts  from current configuration. If firestarter is updated and you don't want to run the GUI, the scripts in
	      /etc/firestarter are not up-to-date. So you have to run firestarter with this option to update the scripts.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --lock Lock the firewall, blocking all traffic.

       -p, --stop
	      Stop the firewall.

       -s, --start
	      Start the firewall.

       --start-hidden
	      Start firestarter with the GUI not visible.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

SEE ALSO

       This program is fully documented in http://www.fs-security.com/docs/.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Ryan M. Golbeck <rmgolbeck@debian.org> and later revised by Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> and Yann  Ver-
       ley <yann.verley@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								 November 26, 2004						    FIRESTARTER(8)