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+#! /bin/sh
+# Wrapper script for use of the tsocks(8) transparent socksification library
+# See the tsocks(1) and torify(1) manpages.
+
+TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=/etc/tor/tsocks.conf
+export TSOCKS_CONF_FILE
+exec tsocks "$@"
diff --git a/contrib/torify.1 b/contrib/torify.1
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+.TH torify 1 "" Feb-2004 ""
+.\" manual page by Peter Palfrader
+.SH NAME
+.LP
+torify \- wrapper for tsocks and tor
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+\fBtorify\fP\ \fIapplication\fP\ [\fIapplication's\ arguments\fP]
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+\fBtorify\fR is a simple wrapper that calls tsocks with a tor specific
+configuration file.
+
+Tsocks itself is wrapper between the tsocks library and the application what
+you would like to run socksified.
+
+Please note that since tsocks uses LD_PRELOAD this cannot be applied to suid
+binaries.
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR tor (1),
+.BR tsocks (1),
+.BR tsocks.conf (5).
diff --git a/contrib/tsocks-tor.conf b/contrib/tsocks-tor.conf
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+# This is the configuration for libtsocks (transparent socks) for use
+# with tor, which is providing a socks server on port 9050 by default.
+#
+# See tsocks.conf(5) and torify(1) manpages.
+
+server = 127.0.0.1
+server_port = 9050