Hello , I am working to automate the certificate create process upon selecting a domain from my drop-down list. Server side programming i am using is in Perl Language. I have used to create the certificate by use of system command as follows. $command = /root/letsencrypt/./certbot-auto certonly …

[image] srajkumar1986: Can’t exec “/root/letsencrypt/./certbot-auto”: Permission denied Are you running your perl script as root?

No issues were found on this command ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Found the following certs: Certificate Name: mydomain.com Domains: mydomain.com Expiry Date: 2018-07-08 12:07:31+00:00 (INVALID: TEST_CERT) Certificate Path: /etc/letse…

If you can run the exact same command line on your shell, it must work with perl's system() command, too. Try the following in a perl script: $command = "/root/letsencrypt/./certbot-auto certificates"; system($command);

@bytecamp thanks . The error was with my side as i am running the let’s encrypt service without root user. Now it has been corrected. Thanks Rajkumar S

Execute certbot-auto command using perl system command

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bytecamp April 9, 2018, 1:02pm 4

Try to run the command in your shell, if it works, there should be no permission problem.

/root/letsencrypt/./certbot-auto certificates

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