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From: Trevor Hemsley on 15 Jun 2008 17:51
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:20:04 UTC in comp.os.linux.questions, Ant
<ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote:

> It looks like I have BOTH v3 and v4. I tried the same command as earlier
> with stunnel4 (e.g., stunnel4 -D 7 -c -d 119 -r localhost:119 ; tin -g
> localhost -p 119), but still get the same errors. :(

V4 takes none of those parameters - it pretty much just wants the location of
its config file. All the other stuff you've given it there is either ignored or
is causing an error (ignored mst likely).

> # ls -all /usr/bin/stunnel*

What would be far more interesting is the output from ls -la /var/lib/stunnel4

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From: Ant on 15 Jun 2008 18:14
On 6/15/2008 2:51 PM PT, Trevor Hemsley typed:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:20:04 UTC in comp.os.linux.questions, Ant
> <ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote:
>
>> It looks like I have BOTH v3 and v4. I tried the same command as earlier
>> with stunnel4 (e.g., stunnel4 -D 7 -c -d 119 -r localhost:119 ; tin -g
>> localhost -p 119), but still get the same errors. :(
>
> V4 takes none of those parameters - it pretty much just wants the location of
> its config file. All the other stuff you've given it there is either ignored or
> is causing an error (ignored mst likely).

Ah. And you say my config file should work. Hmm.


>> # ls -all /usr/bin/stunnel*
>
> What would be far more interesting is the output from ls -la /var/lib/stunnel4

$ ls -la /var/lib/stunnel4
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 stunnel4 stunnel4 4096 2008-06-15 09:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 2008-06-15 09:49 ..

Doesn't seem to help (empty)?
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From: Ant on 15 Jun 2008 18:20
On 6/15/2008 2:36 PM PT, Allen Kistler typed:

>>>> Here is the version in Debian (I apt-get update and upgrade daily):
>>>
>>> Sorry, I can't help, v3 is too old and I have forgotten all about it.
>>> The difference between v3 and v4 is mainly the addition of
>>> stunnel.conf and the dropping of all the command line parameters. I
>>> have no idea why Debian should continue to ship something that hasn't
>>> been updated in about 7 years but all other distros that I've used
>>> switched to v4 a long time ago.
>>> I do know that stunnel is very fussy about permissions on all its
>>> directories though so it's possible that just creating the directory
>>> is not enough, you might have to chown/chmod it too. It's also
>>> possible that stunnel is running from a chroot jail in which case you
>>> might need to be creating /<chroot-jail>/var/run/stunnel
>>
>> Someone else suggested:
>>
>> $ stunnel -f -c -d 1119 -r news.giganews.com:563
>> 2008.06.15 09:45:06 LOG5[2756:3082602160]: Using 'news.giganews.com.563'
>> as tcpwrapper service name
>> 2008.06.15 09:45:06 LOG5[2756:3082602160]: stunnel 3.26 on
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu PTHREAD+LIBWRAP with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
>> 2008.06.15 09:45:06 LOG3[2756:3082602160]: Argument to -P
>> (/var/run/stunnel/) is not valid a directory name
>>
>> Then, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling stunnel and stunnel4
>> packages via apt-get command. I retried and got different results:
>>
>> $ stunnel -f -c -d 1119 -r news.giganews.com:563
>> 2008.06.15 10:02:12 LOG5[3325:3082749616]: stunnel 4.22 on
>> i486-pc-linux-gnu with OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
>> 2008.06.15 10:02:12 LOG5[3325:3082749616]: Threading:PTHREAD
>> SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP
>> 2008.06.15 10:02:12 LOG5[3325:3082749616]: 500 clients allowed
>> 2008.06.15 10:02:12 LOG3[3325:3082749616]: Cannot create pid file
>> /var/run/stunnel4.pid
>> 2008.06.15 10:02:12 LOG3[3325:3082749616]: create: Permission denied (13)
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> It seems like it is mentioning the same permission problems you are
>> referring to. Do I chown and chmod to my user/accountname or what? I
>> don't know what this chroot jail thing is about.
>
> Only root can create pid files in /var/run.
>
> I choose not to run stunnel as root (actually I run it "nobody" using
> options in stunnel.conf), so I create a subdir (/var/run/stunnel) owned
> by "nobody" and change the pidfile directory using one of the options in
> stunnel.conf. The man page describes the options.

I also do not run it as root especially for newgroup reading and
postings! Maybe I am not seeing it, but I don't see anything about
"nobody" in man for both stunnel3 and stunnel4 commands. I see these two
in my /var/run/:

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2008-06-15 11:27 stunnel
drwxr-xr-x 2 stunnel4 stunnel4 4096 2008-06-15 10:00 stunnel4

Sorry if I found like a newbie. I am with this stunnel and not that
knowledgeable with Linux. This stuff is pretty confusing! :(
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From: John Hasler on 15 Jun 2008 18:14
From the stunnel4 package description:

This package is compatible with stunnel 3.x version (via a wrapper).

(I don't use stunnel)
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From: Trevor Hemsley on 15 Jun 2008 18:22
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:14:25 UTC in comp.os.linux.questions, Ant
<ANTant(a)zimage.com> wrote:

> And you say my config file should work. Hmm.

There is an 'output =' line in the config file. I would uncomment that and point
it to /stunnel.log, start it up then look at /var/lib/stunnel4/stunnel.log for
pointers to the error. If it's missing a .pem file then you need to create one
and I don't know how you do that on Debian. You could also list all the files in
your /var/log directory and see if any of those contain useful info.

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