why stunnel is not running on the system and showing stop?

Issue

• On running /etc/init.d/stunnel status it says stop however on running /etc/init.d/stunnel stop, it says "FAILED"

server1[/etc/init.d]# ./stunnel status
stunnel is stopped

server1[/etc/init.d]# ps -ef |grep stunnel
nobody   30811     1  0 12:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/webmethods/bin/stunnel /usr/webmethods/var/chroot-stunnel/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf
nobody   30812 30811  0 12:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/webmethods/bin/stunnel /usr/webmethods/var/chroot-stunnel/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf

server1[/etc/init.d]# service stunnel stop
Stopping stunnel services:                                 [FAILED]