I am trying to add ssl to my shoutcast stream. I get the messages below when I try to start or restart shoutcast. I have purchased an ssl cert and key for this and it did not work via the shoutcast config, so I gave this a shot. The key and certs with combined into the stunnel.pem. See below and thanks for the help. I also added the stunnel config below. client=no [shoutcast] accept=8002 (I also tried 443) connect=localhost:8000 cert = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem pid=/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pid -permissions are set to chmod 600 Stunnel Dir root@kwaxstreamserver:/etc/stunnel# l cert.pem key.pem README stunnel.conf stunnel.pem Stunnel on START Clients allowed=500 stunnel 4.53 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform Compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 Running with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 Update OpenSSL shared libraries or rebuild stunnel Threading:PTHREAD SSL:+ENGINE+OCSP Auth:LIBWRAP Sockets:POLL+IPv6 Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf Compression not enabled Snagged 64 random bytes from /root/.rnd Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /root/.rnd PRNG seeded successfully Line 6: "pid = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pid": Specified option name is not valid here str_stats: 7 block(s), 1063 data byte(s), 406 control byte(s) Stunnel on RESTART root@kwaxstreamserver:/etc/stunnel# /etc/init.d/stunnel4 restart Restarting SSL tunnels: Clients allowed=500 stunnel 4.53 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform Compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 Running with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 Update OpenSSL shared libraries or rebuild stunnel Threading:PTHREAD SSL:+ENGINE+OCSP Auth:LIBWRAP Sockets:POLL+IPv6 Reading configuration from file /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf Compression not enabled Snagged 64 random bytes from /root/.rnd Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /root/.rnd PRNG seeded successfully Line 6: "pid = /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pid": Specified option name is not valid here str_stats: 7 block(s), 1076 data byte(s), 406 control byte(s) [Failed: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf] You should check that you have specified the pid= in you configuration file