Hello,
I want to understand the purpose of a service that I found on my personal PC. it's mason.service, I am troubleshooting, some services and it shows the following output with systemctl status mason.service:
● mason.service - LSB: Starts the mason firewall script
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mason; generated)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2023-12-19 17:51:40 -05; 18min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 1250 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mason start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 4ms
Dec 19 17:51:40 DantiteisMagno systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts the mason firewall script...
Dec 19 17:51:40 DantiteisMagno mason[1250]: /etc/init.d/mason: 111: /var/lib/mason/samlib: cannot create /dev/stderr: No such device or address
Dec 19 17:51:40 DantiteisMagno systemd[1]: mason.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 19 17:51:40 DantiteisMagno systemd[1]: mason.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 19 17:51:40 DantiteisMagno systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts the mason firewall script.
I read on the web and it suggests that it works when one uses a firewall in the middle of the network to administrate. I don't have a firewall, it's a simple personal PC, but I would like to confirm if this is a service that is working for no reason on my personal PC; otherwise, does it have a different purpose?