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Update the torify.1 manpage 

I went into this to fix 6892 and say "we don't do anything for
circuit isolation."  But instead I did a fair amount of text-removal
to stop implying that torify does anything more than call torsocks.
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o Documentation:
- Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
ticket 6892.

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DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION
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**torify** is a simple wrapper that attempts to find the best underlying Tor **torify** is a simple wrapper that
wrapper available on a system. It calls torsocks with a tor specific calls torsocks with a tor-specific
configuration file. + configuration file.
torsocks is an improved wrapper that explicitly rejects UDP, safely resolves DNS It is provided for backward compatibility; probably instead you should
lookups and properly socksifies your TCP connections. + just use torsocks.
Please note that since both method use LD_PRELOAD, torify cannot be applied to
suid binaries.
WARNING WARNING
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When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data. + When used with torsocks, torify should not leak DNS requests or UDP data.
Both will leak ICMP data. torify can leak ICMP data.
torify will not ensure that different requests are processed on
different circuits.
SEE ALSO SEE ALSO
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**tor**(1), **tor-resolve**(1), **torsocks**(1) **tor**(1), **torsocks**(1)
AUTHORS AUTHORS
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