Michael is right. You really do not need the GUI as there isn't much you can do except maybe watch the logs and reload the configuration. You can save off the peer certificate, but I doubt that is used regularly and is more of a debug function in my opinion. You can reload the configuration by stopping/starting the service. As far as watching the logs, you can install GNU Utilities for Win32 and then tail the logs: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/



On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi@lavabit.com> wrote:
Brian.

Okay, I managed to get 4.45 working as a service. My only question
is, how are your bringing up the Stunnel status window?

Even with taskbar = yes, I don't get an icon in the notification
area like I do with Windows XP.

Thanks.

Thomas


On 6/13/2012 2:08 PM, Brian Wilkins wrote:
I run it as a service with no problem.

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Eifert <kxkvi@lavabit.com
<mailto:kxkvi@lavabit.com>> wrote:

   Brian,

   Are you running Stunnel as a service or an app under Windows 7?

   I'm unable to run it as a service without running into a host of
   user interface issues.  However, it runs terrifically as an app for me.

   I did a search to see if I could find any information on why the
   service has issues. I didn't find all that much, but I did stumble
   upon the following comment about services in general, which I found
   interesting:

   "They run in an entirely different console starting with Vista. As a
   result of running in a different console, services cannot interact
   with the desktop. So essentially there is no direct UI support. You
   typically have to code a sibling UI application that does run as a
   normal program and uses some mechanism (named pipes for example) to
   communicate with the service."

   Regards,

   Thomas


   On 6/11/2012 8:54 AM, Brian Wilkins wrote:

       I should note that I have been running stunnel 4.45 on Windows 7
       since
       Oct-2011 with no problems whatsoever. It has been running
       non-stop on
       Windows 7 to this date with no problems. I have not upgraded to the
       latest because I have not been able to have time to test the FIPS
       changes with my configuration yet.

       Brian


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