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@@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ The recommended UID/GID is 220. You can create these like so:
You can pass another user/group to the script; this is however, less safe:
TOR_USER=nobody TOR_GROUP=nogroup sh tor.SlackBuild
-See README.SLACKWARE for how to start tor on boot.
+The following can be used to start/stop tor automatically:
+/etc/rc.d/rc.local
+ if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tor ]; then
+ /etc/rc.d/rc.tor start
+ fi
-Tor requires libevent.
+/etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown
+ if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tor ]; then
+ /etc/rc.d/rc.tor stop
+ fi
+
+Tor requires libevent, while tsocks is an optional run-time dependency if you
+want to use the "torify" shell script.
+
+Take a look at README.SLACKWARE for important notes and recent changes.