On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 05:02:27AM -0900, Mike wrote:
Quoting Peter Pentchev via stunnel-users <stunnel-users@stunnel.org>:
On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 05:48:52PM -0900, Mike via stunnel-users wrote:
I'm setting up a new ubuntu server and it includes stunnel version 5.74.
My ultimate goal is to have the service managed by systemd.
[snip]
So after further searching I found the following files:
/usr/lib/systemd/system/stunnel.target /usr/lib/systemd/system/stunnel@.service
It feels like you're doing this on a Debian/Ubuntu installation. Take a look at the /usr/share/doc/stunnel4/README.Debian file; its purpose is to document Debian-specific changes to the installation. In particular, it could have pointed you to the per-config-file services quicker :)
Most definitely. After reading that file is when I actually started moving in a good direction. :)
So I assume you have now read the per-config-file service section in that file... so see below :)
I executed the command:
systemctl enable stunnel@myconffile
When I use this command:
systemctl start stunnel@myconffile
It definitely executes the correct command, but then the whole service shuts down and I get this:
○ stunnel@myconffile.service - TLS tunnel for network daemons - per-config-file service Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/stunnel@.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2026-02-24 20:44:54 CST; 11s ago Duration: 20.157s Invocation: 46cddb34062b401b87e8516f47b1482b Docs: man:stunnel4(8) Process: 5099 ExecStart=/usr/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/myconffile.conf (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 5099 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 128ms
No stunnel service is running. There wasn't anything in the log that I could find that would indicate why it stopped.
What does `journalctl -u stunnel@myconffile.service` say?
You did not answer this question. However, I just realized something after reading Jochen Bern's reply: did you set `foreground = yes` in your config file? (as the last part of the per-config-file service section says you have to do) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org peter@morpheusly.com PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13