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version 5.2.0 · 3 versions
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✨ tractor — the manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so you found tractor(1) in section 1 of the manual and I am obsessed because this little cutie is gonna change your whole networking life 🧅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

tractor — setup an onion routing proxy 💅

like. that's it. that's the whole job. it sets up an onion routing proxy. iconic behavior tbh.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tractor COMMAND [--verbose]

so you run tractor, you give it a COMMAND, and if you're feeling chatty you can throw --verbose on there too 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay bestie listen up, because this is the good part 👑

This package uses the python stem library to provide a connection through the onion proxy, and it sets up the proxy in user session — so you don't have to mess up with TOR on your system anymore. fr fr. no more system-wide TOR chaos. it's giving considerate. it's giving respectful-of-your-$HOME. we love a package that minds its own business 🫶

🌈 COMMANDS 🌈

  • start — starts onion routing 🧅🔥 like, off you go, you're routing through onions now
  • stop — stops onion routing 😭 the onions rest. they've earned it
  • newid — gives user a new identity 🎭✨ fresh you, who dis
  • restart — stop, then start 🔁 the classic combo, the little one-two
  • set — setup proxy 🛠️
  • unset — unset proxy 🙈 undo it, we're shy now
  • killtor — kill all tor processes by user 💀 exactly what it says. all of them. by user. it's giving ruthless

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Danial Behzadi (dani.behzi@ubuntu.com) — the main character who made all of this happen 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was tractor version 5.0.0, dated 15 Mar 2024 🍓 mwah, sending you and your onion proxy all the good vibes, go forth and route responsibly 🧚💖

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