Confirm LetsEncrypt/Certbot renew script installed?

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#1

Apologies if this is really trivial, but I am just wondering if it is still necessary to create a cron job with certbot renew command in it? I followed the instructions here for installing certbot: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntubionic-apache

The doc says there is a script installed in one of the following:
/etc/crontab/
/etc/cron./
systemctl list-timers

I ran this command: systemctl list-timers

It produced this output: Thu 2020-10-01 11:04:00 UTC 17h left Wed 2020-09-30 16:17:10 UTC 1h 21min ago snap.certbot.renew.timer snap.certbot.renew.service

My web server is (include version): Apache

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 18

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): yes

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): certbot 1.8.0

#2

Hello @jamdev!
Welcome to the community!
Check the output of:

systemctl list-units --all | grep certbot

And if the result looks something like:
128: certbot.service loaded inactive dead Certbot
289: certbot.timer loaded active waiting Run certbot twice daily

You're good to go!

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#3

Thanks for the timely reply! I ran the command and got this:
snap-certbot-579.mount loaded active mounted Mount unit for certbot, revision 579
snap.certbot.renew.service loaded inactive dead Service for snap application certbot.renew snap.certbot.renew.timer loaded active waiting Timer renew for snap application certbot.renew

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#4

Excellent!
You should be able to rely on the timer to do what it is supposed to do.
Your certbot snap is up to date! YAY!
Good Job!
Rip

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