Re: [Firestarter-user] Newbie info

[J.O. A. <tr...@in...>]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, ruaxa03 wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I installed Firestarter on Xandros 2.0 (Standard) . . . . no problems. 
> How do I know if the Wizard has done its thing, if I'm using the 
> internet as a user? There's no indication! If I'm wrong(which, as a 
> newbie, I usually am!) pls clarify. Nothing in the sourceforge.

The wizard creates files that usually are located in /etc/firestarter
The firewall.sh script is then hopefully run by an init file called 
firestarter which is found in your /etc/init.d (if you don't have a such 
file, you can see to that the firewall.sh is run with help of a custom 
startup file, which in redhat is /etc/rc.d/rc.local and in gentoo it's 
/etc/conf.d/local.start). If you are using some type of ppp, then you 
should get the firewall started from the ppp startup script.

A normal user will never notice that the iptable rules has been aplied, of 
course if the user has access to the root password, s/he could run the GUI 
and see if it's on or not. Remember that the GUI isn't anything else than 
a configuration tool that has the ability to show you an easy to 
understand output from the logfile.


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