NAME

       torsocks  -  Shell  wrapper  to  simplify  the  use  of the torsocks(8) library to transparently allow an
       application to use a SOCKS proxy. Basically a renamed, patched tsocks.

SYNOPSIS

       torsocks [application [application's arguments]]
       or torsocks [on|off|--shell]
       or torsocks

DESCRIPTION

       torsocks is a wrapper between the torsocks library and  the  application  what  you  would  like  to  run
       socksified.

SUMMARY

       By  default,  torsocks will assume that it should connect to the SOCKS proxy running at 127.0.0.1 on port
       9050. This is the default address and port for Tor's socks server on most installations.

       In order to use a configuration file, you must set the environment variable TORSOCKS_CONF_FILE  with  the
       location of the file.

       If   TORSOCKS_CONF_FILE   is   not  set,  torsocks  will  attempt  to  read  the  configuration  file  at
       /etc/torsocks.conf. If that file cannot be read,  torsocks  will  use  sensible  defaults  for  most  Tor
       installations, i.e. it will assume that you want to use a SOCKS proxy running at 127.0.0.1 (localhost) on
       port 9050.

       For further information on configuration, see torsocks.conf(5).

OPTIONS

       [application [application's arguments]]
              run the application as specified with the environment (LD_PRELOAD) set such that torsocks(8)  will
              transparently proxy SOCKS connections in that program

       [on|off]
              this option adds or removes torsocks(8) from the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. When torsocks(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/torsocks" or ". /usr/bin/torsocks"
              Example:
              ". torsocks on" -- add the torsocks lib to LD_PRELOAD
              ". torsocks off" -- remove the torsocks lib from LD_PRELOAD

       [show|sh]
              show the current value of the LD_PRELOAD variable

       [--shell]
              create a new shell with LD_PRELOAD including torsocks(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 torsocks project and modified.