1TSOCKS(1)                   General Commands Manual                  TSOCKS(1)
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NAME

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

10       tsocks [application [application's arguments]]
11       or tsocks [on|off]
12       or tsocks
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DESCRIPTION

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

19       [application [application's arguments]]
20              run   the   application   as   specified  with  the  environment
21              (LD_PRELOAD) set such that tsocks(8)  will  transparently  proxy
22              SOCKS connections in that program
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24       [on|off]
25              this  option adds or removes tsocks(8) from the LD_PRELOAD envi‐
26              ronment variable. When tsocks(8) is in this  variable  all  exe‐
27              cuted  applications are automatically socksified. If you want to
28              use this function, you HAVE to  source  the  shell  script  from
29              yours,    like    this:    "source    /usr/bin/tsocks"   or   ".
30              /usr/bin/tsocks"
31              Example:
32              ". tsocks on" -- add the tsocks lib to LD_PRELOAD
33              ". tsocks off" -- remove the tsocks lib from LD_PRELOAD
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35       [show|sh]
36              show the current value of the LD_PRELOAD variable
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38       <without any argument>
39              create a new shell with LD_PRELOAD including tsocks(8).
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AUTHOR

42       This script was created by Tamas SZERB <toma@rulez.org> for the  debian
43       package  of  tsocks.  It  (along with this manual page) have since been
44       adapted into the main tsocks project and modified.
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48TSOCKS                                                               TSOCKS(1)