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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:37:42 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Subject:   Re: stunnel configuration (-l option)
Message-ID:  <20010122223742.Q10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
In-Reply-To: <87puhf29zl.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>; from antipode@thpoon.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:48:30AM -0500
References:  <874rys45pu.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> <20010121214404.G10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <87puhf29zl.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>

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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:48:30AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> writes:
> 
> >   # stunnel -d 993 -l /usr/local/libexec/imapd -- imapd
> > 
> > Doesn't work? Once someone connects, a separate stunnel should fork
> > leaving the listener bound on 993/tcp.
> 
> Shouldn't I be seeing one extra child of stunnel per every imapd
> process?  If I understand correctly, there should be one parent
> stunnel, spawning two children for each connection: one more stunnel
> to do the decryptiong magic, and one to exec the actual server to pipe
> the decrypted stream to.  Am I right?  Now I only see one stunnel
> process in "ps aux", and one imapd process.  But I think that already
> this should be two stunnels and one imapd.

I do not remember for sure, but I don't think it spawns two new
stunnel's per connection.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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