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

[Bernhard Josef Rieder <bernhard@ratte.dhs.org>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 01:58:06AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
 
> 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.
> 
> you could exec a new shell at the end, but thats gross since every
> time you run it you get ya shell stacked on top.  (which means you
> will have to type logout as many times as you ran this script to
> actually logout).


sorry. I forgot to mention something:


.bashrc:
function ts () { . /usr/local/bin/tsocks $1; }


so tsocks is executed within the current shell. But I think it is
still useful. Just "ts on" or "ts off" is great for lazy guys like me :)



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