On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:54:10 UTC in comp.os.linux.questions, Ant
wrote:

> /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log
> It is empty.

Try looking in /var/log/messages.

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On 6/15/2008 3:22 PM PT, Trevor Hemsley typed:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:14:25 UTC in comp.os.linux.questions, Ant
> 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.

Someone suggested trying running it as root just for kicks:

stunnel3 -c -d 1119 -r news.giganews.com:563; tin -g localhost -p 1119
tin 1.9.3 release 20080506 ("Dalintober") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-2008
Iain Lea.
Connection to news server has timed out. Reconnect? (Y/n) Y

It is not connecting. This is with both stunnel3 and stunnel4.
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>>> 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.
>
> Someone suggested trying running it as root just for kicks:
>
> stunnel3 -c -d 1119 -r news.giganews.com:563; tin -g localhost -p 1119
> tin 1.9.3 release 20080506 ("Dalintober") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-2008
> Iain Lea.
> Connection to news server has timed out. Reconnect? (Y/n) Y
>
> It is not connecting. This is with both stunnel3 and stunnel4.

Wait! I got it to work with root. I forgot to disable my firewall via
Guarddog. OK, it connects for both stunnel3 and stunnel4. Now, I need to
make them run it without being root.
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:06:47 UTC in comp.os.linux.questions, Ant
wrote:

> I need to
> make them run it without being root.

Then I would copy your /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf to your own directory, amend
all the user and group names in it to your own, change all the local port
numbers to > 1024 and make sure that the chroot jail it points to is owned by
you and that you have write access to it. Then invoke

stunnel4 /path/to/your/stunnel.conf

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On 6/15/2008 4:01 PM PT, Trevor Hemsley typed:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:54:10 UTC in comp.os.linux.questions, Ant
> wrote:
>
>> /var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log
>> It is empty.
>
> Try looking in /var/log/messages.
>
Nothing, BUT I got it to work. It was my firewall blocking it (disabled
it via GuardDog). I also configured it to work with the firewall. And I
no longer need to run it as root (no idea how I fixed it, maybe it was
the firewall OR testing stunnel with root did something)!
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On 6/15/2008 4:06 PM PT, Ant typed:

>>>> 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.
>>
>> Someone suggested trying running it as root just for kicks:
>>
>> stunnel3 -c -d 1119 -r news.giganews.com:563; tin -g localhost -p 1119
>> tin 1.9.3 release 20080506 ("Dalintober") [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-2008
>> Iain Lea.
>> Connection to news server has timed out. Reconnect? (Y/n) Y
>>
>> It is not connecting. This is with both stunnel3 and stunnel4.
>
> Wait! I got it to work with root. I forgot to disable my firewall via
> Guarddog. OK, it connects for both stunnel3 and stunnel4. Now, I need to
> make them run it without being root.

I configured the firewall to allow both port 563 and 1119 for stunnel
command. And I no longer need to run it as root (no idea how I fixed it,
maybe it was the firewall OR testing stunnel with root did something)!

Thanks all!!
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