torify - Man Page

wrapper for torsocks and tor

Examples (TL;DR)

Synopsis

torify application [application’s arguments]

Description

torify is a simple wrapper that calls torsocks with a tor-specific configuration file​.

It is provided for backward compatibility; instead you should use torsocks​.

Warning

When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data​.

torify can leak ICMP data​.

torify will not ensure that different requests are processed on different circuits​.

See Also

tor(1), torsocks(1)

Author

Tor Project, Inc​.

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Info

10/07/2026 Tor Manual