Tor-project & git ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/23/14 17:48, Mario Lobo wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:03:05 +0200
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:46:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> .... I am interested in the tor project
>>> (https://www.torproject.org/) for anonymizing my browsing.
>>> Inconveniently (but not surprisingly), they don't have a prebuilt
>>> FBSD 9.3 package.
>> FreeBSD has a port of Tor in its collection, but I don't know
>> how far that can be used as an integration to web browsers...
>>
> Yes, it has ! And it works beautifully. I have a working setup of
> tor+privoxy that delivers exactly what is expected.
>
> tor         TCP 127.0.0.1:9050 (LISTEN)
> privoxy     TCP 10.10.10.1:8118 (LISTEN)
>
>
> # snip of /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config
> #
> #      To chain Privoxy and Tor, both running on the same system, you
> #      would use something like:
> #
> forward-socks5   /               127.0.0.1:9050 .
>
>
>
> I just point my browser to privoxy and it communicates with tor.


I got tor, privoxy, torsocks (just in case) pkg-installed, but I am 
puzzled by the 2 lines above showing LISTEN .... that is output from 
.... what (presumably w/ the 2 daemons started) ? Remember, *noob*, 
*noob*, *noob* when it comes to system software :-/ ....


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