[stunnel-users] can't get client address

Draeath Spamtrap draeath.spamtrap at gmail.com
Wed Nov 14 08:17:19 CET 2007


On Tuesday 13 November 2007 04:16:49 pm Michal Trojnara wrote:
> Draeath Spamtrap wrote:
> > Stunnel appears to be working fine, but when started it spams my syslog
> > about 5 times with the following message:
> > "stunnel: warning: can't get client address: Bad file descriptor"
> > There are no other messages from stunnel.
> >
> > I'm not sure where it's coming from...
>
> I've found it:
>
> $ strings -f /usr/lib/* | grep "can't get client address"
> /usr/lib/libwrap.a: can't get client address: %m
> /usr/lib/libwrap.so: can't get client address: %m
>
> You can disable libwrap support if you don't use it:
>
> ./configure --disable-libwrap
> make clean
> make
> make install
>
> > *of note: I had to set the uid/gid number. for some reason it couldn't
> > resolve the gid/uid on it's own. My /etc/passwd is world-readable (with
> > hashes in shadow) as is standard.
>
> Apply: ftp://stunnel.mirt.net/stunnel/setuid.patch
>
> Best regards,
> 	Mike

Thanks for showing me how you found that, that looks like a good command to 
remember. Thanks Mike! That should take care of me!
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