MASON-GUI-TEXT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

mason-gui-text — bestie, it's a front end to mason 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mason-gui-text [--force]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so. mason-gui-text is a "textual GUI" front end to mason, which is the interactive firewall builder, no cap. 🧱🔥

the way that it works is: you run it, and suddenly you're controlling mason's whole behavior through simple keystroke commands. literally just vibes and keys. 💅

here's what it lets you do, and yes it's giving main character energy:

• start and stop mason ✨
• edit the rules that got generated — and then re-merge them into the currently running rule set 👑
• change mason's settings 🌸
• and it's also got a "console lock" setting, so you can lock the console down if you need to 🔒

it's giving "I'm the boss of my firewall" fr fr.

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

default behavior check first, bestie: by default, mason-gui-text just exits if another instance of it is already running. like, it's not gonna fight itself. 🙈

• --force — try to stop other instances of mason-gui-text, then keep on running. dramatic? maybe. effective? yes. 💀

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• mason(1)

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💜 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>. icons only, honestly 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie — MASON-GUI-TEXT(1), aka section 1 of the manual, filed under "textual GUI but make it a keystroke situation." go lock down that console and slay 💖🎀🦋⭐