Re: Firestarter not starting

[John Talbut <john@dpets.demon.co.uk>]

Thanks for the further ideas, Ken.

Firestarter certainly does not seem to be starting on bootup.  Using ps 
as root gives no entries for Firestarter after booting, whereas it does 
once I get Firestarter to start.

The boot script  /etc/init.d/firestarter is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Init file for the Firestarter firewall
#
# chkconfig: 2345 11 92
#
# description: Starts, stops, and lock the firewall
#
# Script Authors:
#	Tomas Junnonen <majix@sci.fi>
#	Paul Drain <pd@cipherfunk.org>
#
# config: /etc/firestarter/configuration

FS_CONTROL="/etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh"

[ -x /usr/sbin/firestarter ] || exit 0
[ -x $FS_CONTROL ] || exit 0
[ -s /etc/firestarter/configuration ] || exit 0

RETVAL=0

start() {
	echo -n "Starting the Firestarter firewall: "
	$FS_CONTROL start > /dev/null
	RETVAL=$?
	if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
		echo done.
	else
		echo "may have failed."
	fi
	return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
	echo -n "Stopping the Firestarter firewall:"
	$FS_CONTROL stop > /dev/null
	RETVAL=$?
	if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
		echo done.
	else
		echo failed.
	fi
	return $RETVAL
}

And the result on bootup is

Starting the Firestarter firewall: may have failed

(Echo message altered to confirm where it is coming from)

Running  /etc/init.d/firestarter start as root

gives the result:

Starting the Firestarter firewall: done.

But in fact it is still not running.

The dektop applet configuration is:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Firestarter
GenericName=
Comment=
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/firestarter.xpm
Exec=gksu -g /usr/sbin/firestarter
Terminal=false
Categories=X-Debian-Apps-Net

Running /usr/sbin/firestarter as root does start Firestarter.

So it seems that the binary /usr/sbin/firestarter works but the scripts 
starting at  /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh do not.

Any more ideas/suggestions?

John Talbut