[stunnel-users] Why 6 processes for single client-mode service configuration?
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 23:27:46 CEST 2011
On 2011-10-10, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm configuring stunnel to encrypt a single client-mode connection:
>
> client = yes
> foreground = yes
> syslog = yes
> pid =
> [stunnel-localhost]
> accept = localhost:4608
> connect = localhost:4606
>
> Why does that result in _six_ stunnel processes?
>
> [one parent and 5 children]?
>
> It's going to look a ridiculous if I have four instances like that
> configured and end up with _24_ stunnel processes.
>
> I can see two processes (one for data flowing in each direction) but
> six seems way overboard.
Apparently the 5 children all belong to libwrap? I had configured
"libwrap = no", but that didn't seem to matter. Rebuilding stunnel
without libwrap support got rid of the 5 useless processes.
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