wrt no extant packages: Read the license - not very nice... you might take a peek at DANTE (free socks4/5 client/server)
wrt it not working: ah... you're on potato... runsocks works fine on glibc-2.0(slink), but fails with glibc-2.1(potato). Note that you can use NEC socks to socksify, at compilation, and it will run fine on potato, its just runsocks that fails. I don't know of anyone who has managed to track this far enough to point fingers at the culprit yet ;-{ -- Rick Nelson C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL