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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>.