TSOCKS(1)                                                     General Commands Manual                                                    TSOCKS(1)

NAME

       tsocks - Shell wrapper to simplify the use of the tsocks(8) library to transparently allow an application to use a SOCKS proxy

SYNOPSIS

       tsocks [application [application's arguments]]
       or tsocks [-on|-off]
       or tsocks

DESCRIPTION

       tsocks is a wrapper between the tsocks library and the application what you would like to run socksified.

OPTIONS

       [application [application's arguments]]
              run  the  application  as specified with the environment (LD_PRELOAD) set such that tsocks(8) will transparently proxy SOCKS connec-
              tions in that program

       [-on|-off]
              this option adds or removes tsocks(8) from the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. When tsocks(8) is  in  this  variable  all  executed
              applications  are  automatically  socksified. If you want to use this function, you HAVE to source the shell script from yours, like
              this: "source /usr/bin/tsocks" or ". /usr/bin/tsocks"
              Example:
              ". tsocks -on" -- add the tsocks lib to LD_PRELOAD (don't forget the leading dot!)
              ". tsocks -off" -- remove the tsocks lib from LD_PRELOAD (don't forget the leading dot!)

       [-show|-sh]
              show the current value of the LD_PRELOAD variable

       <without any argument>
              create a new shell with LD_PRELOAD including tsocks(8).

SEE ALSO

       tsocks.conf(5) tsocks(8)

AUTHOR

       This script was created by Tamas SZERB <toma@rulez.org> for the debian package of tsocks. It (along with this manual page) have since  been
       adapted into the main tsocks project and modified.

TSOCKS                                                                                                                                   
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