Hi there. Here's a fine new little console-based perl script that lets you control your Tor, monitor circuits as they happen, issue commands like changing your identity etc, and forward critical events to a chatroom using the PSYC protocol. I found vidalia too heavy and arm too confusing and didn't see a simple tool that would leverage the Tor control protocol without excessive nuisances, just a bit of noise reduction and text coloring. Also I like notifications to show in my chat client. The notification feature works with a psyced running on the same host. I just committed a "remotor" chatroom which is preset to receive messages from the tool, all you need to do is install psyced and use your IRC client to join #remotor. You can git remotor and the rest of the perlpsyc library from torify git clone git://cheettyiapsyciew.onion/perlpsyc or git clone git://git.psyced.org/git/perlpsyc If you're a lucky owner of a Gentoo system, you can emerge both Net-PSYC and psyced from http://youbroketheinternet.org 's overlay. remotor should work pretty much out of the box. For a quick little glimpse into the perl script, click http://perl.psyc.eu/navigate/bin/remotor If anyone is interested, I can easily add the ability to control the Tor node from the chatroom. http://perl.psyc.eu tells you of the other tools included such as git2psyc for commit notifications in your developer chatroom, syslog2psyc, psycfilemonitor, psycmail, psycmp3... you get the idea. There's also a tarball for download, no wait, it's a zip. -- E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX https://psyced.org:34443/LynX/