On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:00:17PM -0400, Luis L?pez de Quintana wrote:

Problem: stunnel doesn't run:

ldq@ldq:~$ stunnel4 /etc/stunnel.cnf ldq@ldq:~$ ps aux | grep stunnel ldq 15683 0.0 0.0 2332 1392 pts/0 S+ 11:08 0:00 man stunnel ldq 25289 0.0 0.0 1776 608 pts/1 S+ 11:59 0:00 grep stunnel

Okay, so it's not running; but has it logged any error messages using the system's syslog? Is there anything stunnel-related in, say, /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, /var/log/daemon.log or anything similar?

stunnel.cnf: ldq@ldq:~$ cat /etc/stunnel.cnf client = yes debug = debug

To keep stunnel's messages into a separate file, you might also add output = /var/log/stunnel.log and then you'll know for sure if it logs anything. Of course, it will need permission to write to that file - it seems to me that you might be trying to run stunnel as a non-root user, nothing wrong with that, but then it might not be able to read its certificates and stuff.

For debugging purposes, try something like:

debug = debug foreground = yes

For normal use, try this instead:

debug = debug output = /home/your-username/stunnel.log

[nntps] accept = 127.0.0.1:1109 connect = news.giganews.com:443

This section looks fine. Now the most probable cause - IF you are running stunnel as a non-root user - would be that it is looking for its certificates in, say, /etc/stunnel.conf or something, and you do not have permission to read that file.

No matter if you are running it as root or not, try running it with foreground = yes so it does not daemonize and it sends all its output to the standard error stream where you can see it.

Version: stunnel 4.140-5ubuntu1 libc6

ldq@ldq:~$ uname -a Linux ldq 2.6.18.5 SMP Thu May 8 01:31:23 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

G'luck, Peter