tsocks - Shell wrapper to simplify the use of the
tsocks(8) library to
transparently allow an application to use a SOCKS proxy
tsocks [application [application's arguments]]
or
tsocks [-on|-off]
or
tsocks
tsocks is a wrapper between the tsocks library and the application what
you would like to run socksified.
-
[application [application's arguments]]
- run the application as specified with the environment
(LD_PRELOAD) set such that tsocks(8) will transparently proxy SOCKS
connections 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).
tsocks.conf(5) tsocks(8)
This script was created by Tamas SZERB <
[email protected]> for the debian
package of tsocks. It (along with this manual page) have since been adapted
into the main tsocks project and modified.