I'm trying to run stunnel in proxy mode, to accept connections on port 443, and forward them to an application listening at port 9999 on the same box. I believe I have the configuration correct, but I'm obviously overlooking something.

Environment: stunnel 4.15 on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 with OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005

I have built an stunnel.conf file, and a stunnel.pem file which are located in the correct place with the right permissions. I verified that by moving or changing permissions and seeing that errors were produced. I've changed the debug level to 7, and the following information is displayed when I try to start stunnel:

cert# stunnel 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG7[9088:1]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /users/dave/.rnd 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG7[9088:1]: Wrote 1024 new random bytes to /users/dave/.rnd 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG7[9088:1]: RAND_status claims sufficient entropy for the PRNG 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG6[9088:1]: PRNG seeded successfully 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG7[9088:1]: Certificate: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG7[9088:1]: Key file: /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG7[9088:1]: Verify directory set to / 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG5[9088:1]: Peer certificate location / 2006.06.28 13:01:14 LOG7[9088:1]: SSL context initialized for service test cert#

Same thing if I run it as stunnel stunnel.conf -fd

The prompt comes back immediately, ps -ef shows no stunnel running, and nothing is answering on port 443 which is where I'm telling it to listen:

stunnel.conf file:

cert = /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem chroot = /usr/local/etc/stunnel # PID is created inside chroot jail pid = /pid/stunnel.pid #setuid = nobody #setgid = nogroup

# Authentication stuff verify = 3 # don't forget about c_rehash CApath # it is located inside chroot jail: CApath = /

# Some debugging stuff debug = 7 output = stunnel.log

# Use it for client mode client = no

# Service-level configuration

[test] accept = 127.0.0.1:443 connect = 127.0.0.1:9999 #TIMEOUTclose = 0

---end stunnel.conf file---

The pem files are located in the same directory as the stunnel.conf, hence the "/" for the pathname above.

What am I overlooking please?