man socks.fc (Formats) - Frozen configuration file for SOCKS clients

NAME

socks.fc - Frozen configuration file for SOCKS clients

SYNOPSIS

/etc/socks.fc

DESCRIPTION

The frozen configuration file is produced by make_socksfc and is essentially the memory image of the parsed configuration file. Using the frozen configuration file can reduce the start-up delay of the SOCKS client programs since they no longer have to parse the file contents.

When the SOCKS client starts, it always looks for the frozen configuration file /etc/socks.fc first . If that file is not found, it then tries to use the plain-text configuration file /etc/socks.conf. If you use frozen configuration, you must remember to run make_socksfc every time after you modify the plain-text file or the SOCKS clients will continue to use the frozen file of a previous configuration.

To find out the contents of a frozen configuration file, use dump_socksfc.

SEE ALSO

dump_socksfc(8), make_socksfc(8), socks.conf(5), socks_clients(1)

AUTHOR

Ying-Da Lee, yingda@esd.sgi.com or yingda@best.com