Hello,

I set up a server and a client machine to test the combination of stunnel and syslog-ng. I followed the instructions in the example at http://www.stunnel.org/examples/syslog-ng.html, but the log messages are not sent correcly.

The log on the server says:

****: syslog started ****: syslog connected from ###.###.###.###:51646 ****: SSL state (accept): before/accept initialization ****: SSL_accept: 140B544E: error: 140B544E: SSL routines:SSL_GET_NEW_SESSION:ssl session id callback failed ****: syslog finished (-1 left)

The log on the client says:

****: syslog started ****: syslog connected from 127.0.0.1:3524 ****: FD 8 in non-blocking mode ****: syslog connecting ###.###.###.###:514 ****: connect_wait: waiting 10 seconds ****: connect_wait: connected ****: Remote FD=8 initialized ****: SSL state (connect): before/accept initialization ****: SSL state (connect): SSLv3 write client hello A ****: SSL_connect: Peer suddenly disconnected ****: syslog finished (0 left)

Please help.

I found the reason for my problem: stunnel tries to read some random bytes from /dev/urandom, but that device did not exist because I am running stunnel in a virtual server (www.linux-vserver.org) and my virtual server only had a very limited number of device nodes in /dev.

Regards Christoph