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NAME

       socksify - dynamically SOCKSifies a program

SYNOPSIS

       socksify program [ arguments ]

DESCRIPTION

       socksify  is  Dante's  equivalent of the NEC SOCKS' runsocks.  sockisfy
       uses LD_PRELOAD environment variable  to  wrap  all  networking-related
       system  calls  so  that programs can go thought a SOCKS server that was
       installed as part of a firewall.

SEE ALSO

       dante.conf(5)

NOTES

       A more permanent solution would be to add  the  LD_PRELOAD  environment
       value  to the shell startup files.  Then all non-set[ug]id applications
       that are linked dynamically would be socksified.  However this can have
       bad side-effects.

AUTHOR

       Dante was developed for Inferno Nettverk A/S, Norway by:
        - Michael Shuldman <michaels@inet.no>: Design and implementation.
        - Karl-Andr Skevik <karls@inet.no>: Autoconf and porting.