Re: Mason service on personal computer

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 12/20/23 00:57, Daniel Rodriguez wrote:
> 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 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?

As shown in the above output the service has failed to start.

We do not have enough informations to say if it is working or being used.

Given that this is FW related, it might not hurt to ensure that incoming
traffic is blocked by using a front-end to nftables (built-in FW
capability).

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John Doe