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Re: ITP: tsocks -- transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy



On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:58:06AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:31:14AM +0200, Bernhard Josef Rieder wrote:
> > It makes using tsocks really simple. If you want to use tsocks type
> > tsocks on and the other LD_PRELOAD settings stay untouched
> > 
> > If you want to stop using it then type tsocks off. That's it.
> 
> um this won't work.  the shell script will run as its own process
> which means its unable to affect the environment of the parent (your
> shell).  running this script will always be a noop.

Yes.  Instead, it should print out a shell function to do these things, which
the user can eval in .profile or the like.

-- 
 - mdz



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