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diff --git a/network/tor/README b/network/tor/README
index ef4c0eff74..69be208d9c 100644
--- a/network/tor/README
+++ b/network/tor/README
@@ -8,18 +8,20 @@ applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.
This script requires a 'tor' user/group to exist before running.
The recommended UID/GID is 220. You can create these like so:
groupadd -g 220 tor
- useradd -u 220 -g 220 -c "The Onion Router" -d /dev/null -s /bin/false tor
+ useradd -u 220 -g 220 -c "The Onion Router" -d /dev/null \
+ -s /bin/false tor
-You can pass another user/group to the script; this is however, less safe:
+You can pass another user/group to the script; this is however, less
+safe:
TOR_USER=nobody TOR_GROUP=nogroup sh tor.SlackBuild
The following can be used to start/stop tor automatically:
-/etc/rc.d/rc.local
+In file /etc/rc.d/rc.local, add following
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tor ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.tor start
fi
-/etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown
+In /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown, add following
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.tor ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.tor stop
fi
@@ -28,7 +30,6 @@ torsocks is an optional dependency. See README.SLACKWARE for more
information.
optional dependencies:
-- zstd for better compression ratios.
- nacl may provide faster performance on 32-bit systems.
Take a look at README.SLACKWARE for important notes and read also very