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 ###################################################################### 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 ###################################################################### 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.