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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

Proper Firestarter config and error messages at setup

I decided I need a firewall (just for the fun of it....) and installed firestarter.

Seems to be pretty straight forward at first, but I am not really sure about the setup.

So... When I just ran firestarter I got a configuration interface where I checked some boxes... Well, I have firestarter running now, but I got the following error messages:

$ sudo firestarter 
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/inbound/allow-from: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/inbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/inbound/forward: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/deny-to: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/deny-from: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/deny-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-to: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-from: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Error reading file /etc/firestarter/outbound/allow-service: No such file or directory
Warning: External interface previously configured not found
Warning: Internal interface previously configured not found
Firewall script saved as /etc/firestarter/firewall
Adding Firestarter startup hook to /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.exe
Could not write firestarter hook: No such file or directory
Firewall started

Everything alright there or is it worth to look a little deeper into that?

Then - firestarter depends on iptables. So, if it does - why don't I have to start the iptables daemon?

Apart from that - should I run firestarter from the daemons list or should I start it via an autostart from my DM/WM (issuing a sudo firestarter, which implies having the 'sudo firestarter' command added to sudoers, so I can issue it without a password)? I mean... it's kinda funny to have a GUI application running from the daemons line...