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Emanuel Haupt 7640c426a5 - Install inspectsocks and validateconf which are mentioned in the manpage
- Add license
- Use SUB_FILES for pkg-message
- Use DISTVERSION instead of PORTVERSION
- Recreate patch files to satisfy portlint
- Reformat pkg-message to what the PHB (section 8.5) defines as a good format
- Bump PORTREVISION
- Take maintainership
2016-08-19 16:15:17 +00:00

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--- INSTALL.orig 2002-05-18 02:12:30 UTC
+++ INSTALL
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-Quick Installation Instructions
+Quick Instructions
-------------------------------
-1. Unpack the archive (though if you're reading this you've already
-achieved that)
-
- tar -zxvf tsocks-<version>.tar.gx
-
-2. Run ./configure, options which might be of interest (and that are
+1. Explenations of the ./configure options which might be of interest (and that are
specific to tsocks include):
--enable-socksdns This option causes tsocks to intercept
DNS lookups and attempt to force them
@@ -39,55 +34,31 @@ achieved that)
Other standard autoconf options are provided by typing './configure
--help'
-NOTE: The install path for the library is _NOT_ prefixed with --prefix,
-this is because it is strongly recommended that tsocks is installed into
-/lib (and not /usr/lib). This is important if tsocks is put into
-/etc/ld.so.preload since /usr is not mounted on many systems at boot
-time, meaning that programs running before /usr is mounted will try to
-preload tsocks, fail to find it and die, making the machine unusable. If
-you really wish to install the library into some other path use --libdir.
-
-3. Compile the code by typing:
-
- make
+2. Created files:
-This should result in the creation of the following:
- 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)
-4. If you experience any errors at this step and don't know how to fix
-them, seek help using the contacts listed on
-http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/contact.php
-
-5. Install the compiled library. You can skip this step if you only plan
-to use the library for personal use. If you want all users on the machine
-to be able to use it however, su to root then type
-
- make install
-
-This will install the library, the tsocks script and its man pages
-(tsocks(8), tsocks(1) and tsocks.conf(5)) to the paths specified to
-configure.
-
-Note that by default the library is installed to /lib and that the
-configure --prefix is IGNORED. See above for more detail.
+3. Configuration
-6. At this point you'll need to create the tsocks configuration file.
-There are two samples provided in the build directory called
+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').
-7. Having created the tsocks.conf file you should verify it using
+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.
-8. You can now choose to make the library affect all users or just those
+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
@@ -97,25 +68,15 @@ to be transparently proxied:
(in CSH) setenv LD_PRELOAD <path to library>
- <path to library> = e.g /lib/libtsocks.so.1.8
-
-If you want all users to pick up the library, place the full path to the
-full library in the file /etc/ld.so.preload (e.g "/lib/libtsocks.so"). Be
-EXTREMELY careful if you do this, if you mistype it or in some way get it
-wrong this will make your machine UNUSABLE. Also, if you do this, make
-sure the directory you put the library in is in the root of the
-filesystem, if the library is not available at boot time, again, your
-machine will be UNUSABLE.
+ <path to library> = e.g /usr/local/lib/tsocks/libtsocks.so.1.8
-9. Go ahead and use it! At this point everything should work. Again, if
+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. If you do happen to break your
-machine with /etc/ld.so.preload, the build process creates a statically
-linked executable called saveme in the build directory. This executable
-simply unlinks /etc/ld.so.preload, this may or may not save you so give
-it a try. If it fails, you'll need to switch off the machine and get a
-rescue disk (e.g tomsrtbt) mount the disk and remove the file manually.
+http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/contact.php.
Thats it,
Thanks, Shaun Clowes (delius@progsoc.org)
+
+
+Adapted for FreeBSD by Marcin Jessa (yazzy@yazzy.org)