After giving access to var/log/secure/stunnel.log, I now get logs!

There I get the following error:

Cannot create  pid file /var/run/stunnel4.pid
create: Permission denied (13)

Any ideas?

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 4:34 PM d3rIIIe15ter Tier <trashra...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You are right... bad mistake.
>
> Now I get:  cannot open log file - which I am sure is a permission thing
> since I need to use sudo to be able to write to that file.  Any ideas
> further?
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 4:21 PM Christopher Schultz <
> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 5/9/23 10:17, d3rIIIe15ter Tier wrote:
>> > I have tried changing the location to
>> >
>> > var/log/stunnel4/stunnel.log
>> > var/log/stunnel4/stunnelLog
>> > var/log/secure/
>> > var/log/secure/stunnel.log
>> > etc/stunnel/stunnel.log
>> > etc/stunnel/stunnelLog
>> >
>> > don't know how to fix it yet...
>> I don't think the *value* is the problem. The problem is that you have
>> defined "output" somewhere that isn't valid, such as within a specific
>> service's section instead of as a global setting.
>>
>> -chris
>>
>> > On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 3:54 PM Christopher Schultz
>> > <ch...@christopherschultz.net <mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hello,
>> >
>> >     On 5/9/23 09:40, trashra...@gmail.com <mailto:trashra...@gmail.com>
>> >     wrote:
>> >      > Hi,  I am on Debian - when I run "sudo stunnel stunnel.conf" I
>> >     get the following output:
>> >      >
>> >      > [ ] Clients allowed=500
>> >      > [.] stunnel 5.56 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu platform
>> >      > [.] Compiled with OpenSSL 1.1.1k  25 Mar 2021
>> >      > [.] Running  with OpenSSL 1.1.1n  15 Mar 2022
>> >      > [.] Threading:PTHREAD Sockets:POLL,IPv6,SYSTEMD
>> >     TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI Auth:LIBWRAP
>> >      > [ ] errno: (*__errno_location ())
>> >      > [.] Reading configuration from file /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
>> >      > [.] UTF-8 byte order mark not detected
>> >      > [.] FIPS mode disabled
>> >      > [ ] Compression disabled
>> >      > [ ] No PRNG seeding was required
>> >      > [!] /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf:24: "output = /tmp/stunnel.log":
>> >     Specified option name is not valid here
>> >      > [ ] Deallocating section defaults
>> >      >
>> >      > When I run "sudo netstat -tulnp | grep -i stunnel"  I also get no
>> >     output - which means that stunnel is not starting up?
>> >
>> >     The log message seems pretty specific to me. Maybe you should fix
>> that?
>> >
>> >     -chris
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