[stunnel-users] Ubuntu version of stunnel : multiple process shown by a ps -edf, compiled from sources : one process

[Thomas Manson]

Hi,

  To get around a bug of stunnel present in the package of Ubuntu 11.10
(that has been corrected in v4.38),

  I've compiled from sources (v4.53).

  It went well, but  I did notice a change in the processes :

from compiled sources, I can see only on process per conf file

######################################################################
    1 21402 21402 21402 ?           -1 Ss     109   0:00
/usr/local/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/base.conf
    1 21411 21411 21411 ?           -1 Ss     109   0:00
/usr/local/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
    1 21420 21420 21420 ?           -1 Ss     109   0:00
/usr/local/bin/stunnel4 /etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
######################################################################


while on the ubuntu version, I've multiple process per conf file.

ps -edf  from ubuntu distrib
######################################################################
    1 24773 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
    1 24774 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
    1 24775 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
    1 24776 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
    1 24777 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
    1 24778 24778 24778 ?           -1 Ss     109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/base.conf
    1 24787 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
    1 24788 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
    1 24789 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
    1 24790 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
    1 24791 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
    1 24792 24792 24792 ?           -1 Ss     109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/extranet.serviceplus-hse.com.conf
    1 24801 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
    1 24802 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
    1 24803 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
    1 24804 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
    1 24805 24762 18168 ?           -1 S      109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
    1 24806 24806 24806 ?           -1 Ss     109   0:00 /usr/bin/stunnel4
/etc/stunnel/mansonthomas.com.conf
######################################################################

I'm using the exact same version of conf file for both setup...

any idea why this change ?

is one better than another ?

Regards,
Thomas.
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