[stunnel-users] stunnel exits silently on startup

Mon Jul 21 10:48:13 CEST 2008

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:33:43AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:00:17PM -0400, Luis L?pez de Quintana wrote:
> > Problem: stunnel doesn't run:
> > 
> > ldq at ldq:~$ stunnel4 /etc/stunnel.cnf
> > ldq at ldq:~$ ps aux | grep stunnel
> > ldq      15683  0.0  0.0   2332  1392 pts/0    S+   11:08   0:00 man stunnel
> > ldq      25289  0.0  0.0   1776   608 pts/1    S+   11:59   0:00 grep
> > stunnel
> 
> Okay, so it's not running; but has it logged any error messages using
> the system's syslog?  Is there anything stunnel-related in, say,
> /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, /var/log/daemon.log or anything
> similar?
[snip more of my explanations and guesses]
> No matter if you are running it as root or not, try running it with
> foreground = yes so it does not daemonize and it sends all its output
> to the standard error stream where you can see it.

Oops, sorry for the "PHISH" tag in the subject of my previous message;
it seems our MailScanner thought that 127.0.0.1:443 was a malicious
link :)

G'luck,
Peter

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