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 read on the web and it suggests that it works when one uses a firewall in
the middle of the network to administrate. I don't have a firewall, it's a
simple personal PC, but 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?

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