Hi,
To get around a bug of stunnel present in the package of Ubuntu 11.10
(that has been corrected in v4.38),
I've compiled from sources (v4.53).
It went well, but I did notice a change in the processes :
from compiled sources, I can see only on process per conf file
######################################################################
1 21402 21402 21402 ? -1 Ss 109 0:00
/usr/local/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/base.conf
1 21411 21411 21411 ? -1 Ss 109 0:00
/usr/local/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
1 21420 21420 21420 ? -1 Ss 109 0:00
/usr/local/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
######################################################################
while on the ubuntu version, I've multiple process per conf file.
ps -edf from ubuntu distrib
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1 24773 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
1 24774 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
1 24775 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
1 24776 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
1 24777 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
1 24778 24778 24778 ? -1 Ss 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
1 24787 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
1 24788 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
1 24789 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
1 24790 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
1 24791 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
1 24792 24792 24792 ? -1 Ss 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
1 24801 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
1 24802 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
1 24803 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
1 24804 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
1 24805 24762 18168 ? -1 S 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
1 24806 24806 24806 ? -1 Ss 109 0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
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I'm using the exact same version of conf file for both setup...
any idea why this change ?
is one better than another ?
Regards,
Thomas.