No, that does not work either. I can get stunnel to start fine outside of php, but not as an exec or shell_exec from within a running script, or even from within php -a interactively. I can get other programs to work fine this way, so it is specific to the stunnel executable as best I can tell. I have tried running various forms of bash scripts too, but none do any better. Ideas? . . . . . Wesley On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Ludolf Holzheid < lholzheid@bihl-wiedemann.de> wrote:

On Fri, 2008-05-02 12:32:19 -0700, Wesley Kenzie wrote:

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Yes. Without this stunnel would not launch. With foreground = no and with the trailing & on the command line I got it to launch, but still control will not return to my php script ...

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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Ludolf Holzheid < lholzheid@bihl-wiedemann.de> wrote:

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On Fri, 2008-05-02 12:19:38 -0700, Wesley Kenzie wrote:

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I am having problems launching stunnel from a php "exec" command. I would like to have it launch as a server daemon and then have the exec command return control to the php script.

Did you try to specify ``foreground = no'' in the configuration file?

Wesley,

I must confess that I don't know php and its `exec' command. There must be something special about it.

I would try to start a shell, which starts stunnel, which, in turn, detaches itself to the background (i.e. something like "/bin/sh -c '/usr/local/bin/stunnel /etc/stunnel/test.conf'"). So that the process started by `exec' finishes and hopefully control returns to php.

hth,

Ludolf

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