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I have installed Firestarter yesterday and let it run for more than 12 hours without problems. However in the last hour or so it would close itself without reason. I restart it and after a few minutes it would close again. I never experienced any such problems ever. I run Linux Debian 6 by the way. Any ideas why this happen?
I haven't seen that before either, but, if you are referring to the Firestarter firewall, the GUI doesn't have to run for the firewall to work. Firestarter is a frontend for configuring iptables. Once you are satisfied with the configuration, you can forget about Firestarter until you need to change your configuration.
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