[stunnel-users] Getting Stunnel to Work Under Windows 7 64-bit

Thu Jun 14 14:08:56 CEST 2012

Michael is right. You really do not need the GUI as there isn't much you
can do except maybe watch the logs and reload the configuration. You can
save off the peer certificate, but I doubt that is used regularly and is
more of a debug function in my opinion. You can reload the configuration by
stopping/starting the service. As far as watching the logs, you can install
GNU Utilities for Win32 and then tail the logs:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi at lavabit.com> wrote:

> Brian.
>
> Okay, I managed to get 4.45 working as a service. My only question
> is, how are your bringing up the Stunnel status window?
>
> Even with taskbar = yes, I don't get an icon in the notification
> area like I do with Windows XP.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On 6/13/2012 2:08 PM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
>
>> I run it as a service with no problem.
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi at lavabit.com
>> <mailto:kxkvi at lavabit.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Brian,
>>
>>    Are you running Stunnel as a service or an app under Windows 7?
>>
>>    I'm unable to run it as a service without running into a host of
>>    user interface issues.  However, it runs terrifically as an app for me.
>>
>>    I did a search to see if I could find any information on why the
>>    service has issues. I didn't find all that much, but I did stumble
>>    upon the following comment about services in general, which I found
>>    interesting:
>>
>>    "They run in an entirely different console starting with Vista. As a
>>    result of running in a different console, services cannot interact
>>    with the desktop. So essentially there is no direct UI support. You
>>    typically have to code a sibling UI application that does run as a
>>    normal program and uses some mechanism (named pipes for example) to
>>    communicate with the service."
>>
>>    Regards,
>>
>>    Thomas
>>
>>
>>    On 6/11/2012 8:54 AM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
>>
>>        I should note that I have been running stunnel 4.45 on Windows 7
>>        since
>>        Oct-2011 with no problems whatsoever. It has been running
>>        non-stop on
>>        Windows 7 to this date with no problems. I have not upgraded to the
>>        latest because I have not been able to have time to test the FIPS
>>        changes with my configuration yet.
>>
>>        Brian
>>
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