[Moderator’s note: This post is from 2015. Since then, the letsencrypt command has been renamed certbot, and you can renew by running “certbot renew” . You can also add that command to your crontab: $ sudo crontab -e # Add this to the crontab and save it: * 7,19 * * * certbot -q renew ] Hi, I c…

ah interesting idea so to keep checking number of days till expiry before triggering an actual auto renew :slight_smile:

cheers @Nemis I changed my cron file routine for letsencrypt ssl certificate auto renewal to check certificate expiry date every 9 days and run auto renewal only if certificate expiry date is less than 30 days. This will ensure if auto renewal fails for some reason on either side, that there’s 29/9…

Why not check every day/run? :smile:

the cron log would get pretty messy if you had say 100 domain/sites with ssl and each having their own cron running every day that’s an extra 100 entries per day for my cron there’s auto email notification of failed renewals so you’d have up to 4 email notification if all initial + subsequent 3 aut…

Maybe there’s a way to get it all to a single cronjob. :confused:

Using this method had worked until about a day or two ago after running “git pull” to update my official LE client; I know get this error upon a renewal attempt: letsencrypt: error: agree-dev-preview set to ‘True’ rather than a value what’s going on now? is it related to the public beta or a clien…

[image] Fsantiago1979: letsencrypt: error: agree-dev-preview set to 'True' rather than a value what's going on now? is it related to the public beta or a client update or elsewhere? Thanks. Don't use "agree-dev-preview". It's deprecated

I thought about that and removed it from my cli.ini file but still receive the same exact error msg. my ini now consists of: authenticator = webroot webroot-path = server = https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory renew-by-default email = postmaster@ and my sh script follows the above e…

[image] Fsantiago1979: renew-by-default should be renew-by-default = True

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suppose could add all the cron files into a single wrapper script that runs on cron schedule

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