[stunnel-users] How do I kill stunnel?

[Peter Pentchev]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:57:39PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've got an application that starts stunnel using equivalent of
> a fork/exec.  The stunnel process then appears to fork off
> multiple copies of itself.
> 
> Before the application exits, it needs to stop stunnel.  I send
> a SIGINT to the PID that was created using the fork, but only
> the first "master" copy terminates -- the master stunnel
> process doesn't terminate its children when it exits.  So I end
> up with a bunch of "orphaned" stunnel processes.  They're not
> zombies, they're process that are either in state R or S
> (runnable or sleeping).
> 
> How do I tell stunnel to not only terminate, but to terminate
> whatever child processes it has created?

If you have built stunnel with libwrap support, chances are high
that the patch from this message might help you:

http://stunnel.mirt.net/pipermail/stunnel-users/2008-June/002021.html

G'luck,
Peter

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