To Compile from CVS/SVN ----------------------- make -f Makefile.cvs ./configure make make install ============================================================================== Original Installation Instructions For Tsocks --------------------------------------------- 1. Explenations of the ./configure options which might be of interest (and that are specific to tsocks include): --disable-tordns This option disables tordns, which causes names to be looked up in a way designed to work well with Tor. --enable-socksdns This option causes tsocks to intercept DNS lookups and attempt to force them to use TCP instead of UDP and thus be proxied through the socks server. This is not a very elegant thing to do and should be avoided where possible. --disable-debug This configuration option tells tsocks to never output error messages to stderr. This can also be achieved at run time by defining the environment variable TSOCKS_NO_ERROR to be "yes" --enable-oldmethod This forces tsocks not to use the RTLD_NEXT parameter to dlsym to get the address of the connect() method tsocks overrides, instead it loads a reference to the libc shared library and then uses dlsym(). Again this is not very elegant and shouldn't be required. --enable-hostnames This enables DNS lookups on names provided as socks servers in the config file. This option is not compatible with tordns or socks dns, since tsocks can't send a socks dns request to resolve the location of the socks server. --with-conf= You can specify the location of the tsocks configuration file using this option, it defaults to '/etc/tsocks.conf' Other standard autoconf options are provided by typing './configure --help' 2. Created files: - libtsocks.so - the libtsocks library - validateconf - a utility to verify the tsocks configuration file - inspectsocks - a utility to determine the version of a socks server - saveme - a statically linked utility to remove /etc/ld.so.preload if it becomes corrupt - man pages - tsocks(8), tsocks(1) and tsocks.conf(5) 3. Configuration You'll need to create the tsocks configuration file. There are two samples provided in the build directory and /usr/local/share/examples/tsocks called tsocks.conf.simple.example and tsocks.conf.complex.example. Documentation on the configuration file format is provided in the tsocks.conf man page ('man tsocks.conf'). 4. Having created the tsocks.conf file you should verify it using validateconf (some detail on validateconf can be found in the tsocks.conf man page). Normally validateconf is run without arguments ('./validateconf'). Any errors which are displayed by validateconf need to be rectified before tsocks will function correctly. 5. You can now choose to make the library affect all users or just those who choose to use it. If you want users to use it themselves, they can simply use the tsocks(1) shell script to run programs (see 'man tsocks') or do the following in their shell before running applications that need to be transparently proxied: (in Bash) export LD_PRELOAD= (in CSH) setenv LD_PRELOAD = e.g /usr/local/lib/tsocks/libtsocks.so.1.8 6. Go ahead and use it! At this point everything should work. Again, if you experience any problems, use the contact points listed at http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/contact.php. Thats it, Thanks, Shaun Clowes (delius@progsoc.org) Adapted for FreeBSD by Marcin Jessa (yazzy@yazzy.org)