Stunnel stuck on "failed" after cPanel discontinued support

Hello. I am having an issue where I can not get the stunnel service to stop/start or enable/disable. Anytime I run the following status checks i get:

[root@cloud ~]# systemctl status stunnel
? stunnel.service - cPanel ssl services
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/stunnel.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-08-09 16:09:46 EDT; 1h 2min ago

Aug 09 16:09:46 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: Starting cPanel ssl services...
Aug 09 16:09:46 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: stunnel.service: control process exited, code=exited status=203
Aug 09 16:09:46 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: Failed to start cPanel ssl services.
Aug 09 16:09:46 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: Unit stunnel.service entered failed state.
Aug 09 16:09:46 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: stunnel.service failed.

Because I can't stop the service it just sits as failed, so i am always showing a degraded service:

[root@cloud ~]# systemctl status
? cloud.XXX.co
    State: degraded
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 1 units
    Since: Tue 2016-08-09 02:56:53 EDT; 12h ago

If I look at the journal records I see this:

[root@cloud ~]# journalctl -a | grep stunnel
Aug 09 02:57:01 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1248]: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/local/cpanel/startstunnel: No such file or directory
Aug 09 02:57:01 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: stunnel.service: control process exited, code=exited status=203
Aug 09 02:57:01 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: Unit stunnel.service entered failed state.
Aug 09 02:57:01 cloud.XXX.co systemd[1]: stunnel.service failed.

When I explored the referenced stunnel.service file I noticed it is referencing the removed cPanel directories mentioned in your release notes about stopping support for stunnel.

[root@cloud ~]# cat /etc/systemd/system/stunnel.service
[Unit]
Description=cPanel ssl services
PartOf=cpanel.service
After=cpanel.service
ConditionPathExists=/var/cpanel/cpanel.config
# this is used by a DNS only server and should not block on /var/cpanel/dnsonly #

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/cpanel/startstunnel

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I am assuming that this file is causing stunnel to fail because there is now no directives to start within cpanel files. I am unsure how to fix this issue so that I can just properly disable stunnel. I have tried everything from various start/stop/restart commands, to disable and have since restarted all services. Any advice on this would be much appreciated. Thank you so much! OS and CP versions: CENTOS 7.2 x86_64 WHM 58.0 (build 17) autoupdating to 58.0.19 tonight. XXX = intentional domain redaction

cPanelMichael

August 16, 2016 19:10

Hello, The stunnel service is disabled in cPanel 58, however the remaining configuration files associated with this service are removed in cPanel version 60. Here's the output on a test system running cPanel 60:

# ls  /etc/systemd/system/stunnel.service
ls: cannot access /etc/systemd/system/stunnel.service: No such file or directory

Thank you.

hello-electro

August 16, 2016 19:51

To confirm, what I am reporting is to be expected and will be resolved once v60 is released for production? Thanks!

August 16, 2016 20:09

To confirm, what I am reporting is to be expected and will be resolved once v60 is released for production?

Yes, this is correct. Thanks!

August 16, 2016 20:10

Great. Thanks for the info!

Stunnel stuck on "failed" after cPanel discontinued support

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