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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m testing openvpn over stunnel4 and I found a weird issue: I have to restart my Ubuntu 18.04 to be able to start the stunnel service. Don’t know why I couldn’t start the service dicrectly by :
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<p class="MsoNormal">Systemctl start stunnel4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">OS: Ubuntu 18.04<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#>apt install stunnel4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and generate a conf like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cert=/etc/stunnel/server.crt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">key=/etc/stunnel/server.key<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[openvpn-localhost]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">accept = 8443<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">connect = 127.0.0.1:11000<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now start the service:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#>systemctl start stunnel4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">#>systemctl status stunnel4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">stunnel4.service - LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (TLS tunnel for network daemons)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/stunnel4; generated)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Active: active (exited) since Wed 2020-01-15 14:40:11 CST; 10min ago<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> CGroup: /system.slice/stunnel4.service<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jan 15 14:40:11 iZ8vb6j45u355dm236tpibZ systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (TLS tunnel for network daemons)...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jan 15 14:40:11 iZ8vb6j45u355dm236tpibZ stunnel4[3583]: TLS tunnels disabled, see /etc/default/stunnel4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jan 15 14:40:11 iZ8vb6j45u355dm236tpibZ systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start or stop stunnel 4.x (TLS tunnel for network daemons).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why it exited? But after reboot, same command will just work. Is it a bug?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to find a way to start it directly after installation. Please help!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian">Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#669900">Robin</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:DengXian;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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