tsocks does not work

[James Hozier]

Do you know if dante works similarly?

I tried installing dante from ports but I also get an error:

$ socksify irc
socksify: missing /opt/local/lib/libdsocks.so. no preload support?
$

--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:

> From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
> Subject: Re: tsocks does not work
> To: "James Hozier" <guitarscn1 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Ryan Schmidt" <ryandesign at macports.org>, macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 10:52 PM
> >>>>> "James" == James
> Hozier <guitarscn1 at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> 
> James> Ah, both those lines do not work; I get the same
> error.
> James> Is tsocks the same as the 'torify' command? Is
> there an alternative I
> James> can use to run programs through Tor? Like there
> is Torbutton for
> James> Firefox but I remember I used to be able to do
> 'torify firefox' and
> James> it would start Firefox already using Tor.
> 
> No.  Torifying a web browser means to set its
> web-proxy to the local
> tor-ified web proxy, which in turn knew how to be a member
> of the tor
> network.
> 
> tsocks intercepted calls to "socket(2)" at the lowest
> level, replacing
> them with versions that would call something like
> tor_socket() which
> also knew how to get onto the tor network.
> 
> tsocks was rather magical.  No surprise the magic dust
> wore out.
> 
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