Dear u34, Let me guess: You configured stunnel with "foreground = yes" which enables logging to stderr, which systemd redirects to the journal, while also logging to syslog (no "syslog = no"), which systemd also redirects to the journal. Am I right? What give you the reason to assume that "-reopen" is _the only_ facility that reopens the log file? Best regards, Mike On Tue, Mar 3, 2026, at 21:13, u34--- via stunnel-users wrote:
This messgave could be related to the [systemd and stunnel.service](https://www.stunnel.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/stunnel-users@lists.stunnel...) thread.
With stunnel 5.77 from the official Debian package, and using instances of Debian systemd template, I am getting duplicate lines at the journal. Each line is duplicated, as in
Mar 03 01:02:24 myhost stunnel[50237]: LOG5[ui]: Log file reopened Mar 03 01:02:24 myhost stunnel4[50237]: 2026.03.03 01:02:24 LOG5[ui]: Log file reopened
The order of those lines can be reversed in the sense that the line with the duplicate date sometimes appears before the other line.
As an aside, the manual page states
-reopen (Windows NT and later only) Reopen the log file of the running NT Service
but this report is for a Linux machine. Am I confusing what the manual page states for a command line option with the fact that stunnel reopens the log file periodicaly on all platforms? In addition to my possible misunderstanding about the log file being reopened, I find it odd there is a log file mentioned at all. Because I didn't configured a log file in the configuration file at all.
Returning to the duplicate lines issue, I have tried to run stunnel directly from the command line, as in
# /usr/bin/stunnel /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf &
With this command line, I got log messages in the terminal, as well as in systemd journal. Can it be that when run by the systemd template, the lines from the terminal are directed to the journal, and that explain the duplication? _______________________________________________ stunnel-users mailing list -- stunnel-users@lists.stunnel.org To unsubscribe send an email to stunnel-users-leave@lists.stunnel.org