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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 [applications 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).

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.