[stunnel-users] Stunnel 4.26 - AIX 5.3

Sat Jan 24 18:16:25 CET 2009

Hi Claus,

Am Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:55:05 -0500
schrieb "Lund, Claus" <Claus.Lund at state.vt.us>:

> I checked out your previous mails... And I don't know if it's related. I
> haven't dived into the code or done any extensive testing to try to figure
> out why Stunnel was failing when using "exec = ...". And I haven't had any
> problems when using it the way we do.

the "exec" issue is not the point, that was problematic for me. The problem is
the still open stdout/stderr file handle. See my mail from the 10th of January
for details.

> > Could you try to run stunnel from a terminal instead?
> I can (and did yesterday when I was helping Tom) ... but I'm not entirely
> sure what you'd like me to test  :-)

I did the following:

1) running stunnel 4.20 (no separate libwrap):
The stunnel processes are properly disconnected from stdout/stderr.
See the output of "ps" - especially the "tty" column.

2) running stunnel 4.21 (with libwrap):
The stunnel processes (except for one) are still connected to stdout/stderr.
This can cause programs to hang (e.g. the cryptonas python code, that I referred
to, was waiting forever for the daemon process to finish/disconnect - with 4.20
it worked).

3) running stunnel 4.21 (disabled libwrap):
The stunnel processes are disconnected from stdout/stderr. It behaves just like
4.20 - no hang or other problems.

If you notice above behaviour (2) for 4.21 (or later) with libwrap enabled, then
I guess, this is a problem, or?
At least, I expected stunnel to disconnect completely from the terminal when
entering daemon mode. If my expectations are flawed here, then we all can safely
ignore this non-issue :)

thanks for your time!
Lars