Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

"Wu-Kung Sun" <sunwukung@gmail.com> wrote:


> I've got the same problem.  A symlink for firestarter is in the rcN.d
> directories and it even shows up as started in the bootlog.  But it
> doesn't show up in the process list until I manually start it.  That
> plus it seems to have a memory leak are making investigate other
> firewall options.
> 
> Can anyone reccomend a firewall that doesn't suck up memory and cause
> system instability after long uptimes?

Firestarter as such does not need to show up in processes, because it
just activates the native firewall contained in the linux kernel
itself. What you see in the process list is only the GUI. You can
safely shut it down, the firewall will still be running.

Andrei
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