NAME

       mason-gui-text - front end to mason

SYNOPSIS

       mason-gui-text [--force]

DESCRIPTION

       mason-gui-text  is a "textual GUI" front end to mason, the interactive firewall builder.  When it is run,
       it allows you to control mason's behavior through simple keystroke  commands.   It  can  start  and  stop
       mason, allow you to edit the rules generated (and re-merge them into the currently running rule set), and
       change mason's settings.  It also has a "console lock" setting for locking the console down if necessary.

OPTIONS

       Default behaviour of mason-gui-text ist to exit if another instance of it is already running.

       --force
              Try to stop other instances of mason-gui-text and continue running

SEE ALSO

       mason(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may  be
       used by others) and supplemented by Thomas Scheffczyk <scheffczyk@debian.org>.

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