[stunnel-users] Stunnel graceful reload

Thu Jul 14 14:46:36 CEST 2016

Hi!

I have a situation where I have the stunnel daemon between two remote 
servers that are going over untrusted networks, mostly for MySQL 
replication, for transparent and secure connections over unknown 
networks etc.

I looked up on the mailing list, and I can't find the answer anywhere. 
Is there a way to do a soft reload when adding a new connection to the 
configuration? The docs say you can issue a SIGHUP, and I see it 
referenced in a couple of questions, but that always refers to a 
certificate change.

For example, I have an established tunnel, and I'd like to add another 
one. My only option, as far as I can see is to fully restart the daemon 
in order for the new connection to become active. Sending the HUP signal 
does not create the new connection, only a restart does. I like to avoid 
restarts as that severs all existing connections over stunnel. Is there 
a way to do a graceful restart where the existing connections are not 
disconnected and only the new ones are added?

Thanks!