TSOCKS(1)                                                            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 connections in that program

       [-on|-off]
              this  option adds or removes tsocks(8) from the LD_PRELOAD envi‐
              ronment variable. When tsocks(8) is in this  variable  all  exe‐
              cuted  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                                                               TSOCKS(1)