No, that does not work either.
 
I can get stunnel to start fine outside of php, but not as an exec or shell_exec from within a running script, or even from within php -a interactively.
 
I can get other programs to work fine this way, so it is specific to the stunnel executable as best I can tell.
 
I have tried running various forms of bash scripts too, but none do any better.
 
Ideas?
 
. . . . .
Wesley

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Ludolf Holzheid <lholzheid@bihl-wiedemann.de> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-02 12:32:19 -0700, Wesley Kenzie wrote:
> Yes. Without this stunnel would not launch. With foreground = no and with
> the trailing & on the command line I got it to launch, but still control
> will not return to my php script ...
>
> . . . . .
> Wesley
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Ludolf Holzheid <
> lholzheid@bihl-wiedemann.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2008-05-02 12:19:38 -0700, Wesley Kenzie wrote:
> > > I am having problems launching stunnel from a php "exec" command.  I
> > would
> > > like to have it launch as a server daemon and then have the exec command
> > > return control to the php script.
> >
> > Did you try to specify ``foreground = no'' in the configuration file?

Wesley,

I must confess that I don't know php and its `exec' command. There
must be something special about it.

I would try to start a shell, which starts stunnel, which, in turn,
detaches itself to the background (i.e. something like "/bin/sh -c
'/usr/local/bin/stunnel /etc/stunnel/test.conf'"). So that the process
started by `exec' finishes and hopefully control returns to php.

hth,

Ludolf

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