You are right... bad mistake. 

Now I get:  cannot open log file - which I am sure is a permission thing since I need to use sudo to be able to write to that file.  Any ideas further?

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 4:21 PM Christopher Schultz <chris@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
Hello,

On 5/9/23 10:17, d3rIIIe15ter Tier wrote:
> I have tried changing the location to
>
> var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log
> var/log/stunnel4/stunnelLog
> var/log/secure/
> var/log/secure/stunnel.log
> etc/stunnel/stunnel.log
> etc/stunnel/stunnelLog
>
> don't know how to fix it yet...
I don't think the *value* is the problem. The problem is that you have
defined "output" somewhere that isn't valid, such as within a specific
service's section instead of as a global setting.

-chris

> On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 3:54 PM Christopher Schultz
> <chris@christopherschultz.net <mailto:chris@christopherschultz.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     On 5/9/23 09:40, trashrap22@gmail.com <mailto:trashrap22@gmail.com>
>     wrote:
>      > Hi,  I am on Debian - when I run "sudo stunnel stunnel.conf" I
>     get the following output:
>      >
>      > [ ] Clients allowed=500
>      > [.] stunnel 5.56 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform
>      > [.] Compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021
>      > [.] Running  with OpenSSL 1.1.1n  15 Mar 2022
>      > [.] Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6,SYSTEMD
>     TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI Auth:LIBWRAP
>      > [ ] errno: (*__errno_location ())
>      > [.] Reading configuration from file /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
>      > [.] UTF-8 byte order mark not detected
>      > [.] FIPS mode disabled
>      > [ ] Compression disabled
>      > [ ] No PRNG seeding was required
>      > [!] /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf:24: "output = /tmp/stunnel.log":
>     Specified option name is not valid here
>      > [ ] Deallocating section defaults
>      >
>      > When I run "sudo netstat -tulnp | grep -i stunnel"  I also get no
>     output - which means that stunnel is not starting up?
>
>     The log message seems pretty specific to me. Maybe you should fix that?
>
>     -chris
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