hi there, I’ve troubles with the letsencrypt renew script. I’ve added an cronjob on my debian 8 server with the following command 0 6 1 * * /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/letsencrypt renew in the logs I’ve got the following error: 2016-05-01 04:00:06,689:INFO:letsencrypt.cli:Could not choos…

thanks again, the other thread showed the solution my .bash script now looks like this: #!/bin/sh PATH=output of echo $PATH /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/letsencrypt renew and now it works

When something runs fine manually but fails when put in crontab, the most common reason is that the environment cron sees is not quite the same as yours. Basically if you do “env”, you will see a bunch of environment variables (such as PATH, etc). If whatever you run as cron relies on any of those v…

hm, so what to do excactly? :confused:

I’m not using the official client, but you could start with changing into the directory where the script is before executing it and see if that helped. You can simply add either cd /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/ && or cd /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/ ; before the command. The differe…

Something else you could perhaps try. Create a bash script with your renew command-line in it. Make it executable Run the bash script manually to see if it works Then automate the running of that bash script from Cron. I prefer doing things this way with bash scripts because things sometimes can …

thanks for you answers, I’ll try it and will post again with the result

I’ve made an bash script with the following commands #!/bin/sh cd /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/ /root/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/letsencrypt renew but I’ve got the same errors in the letsencrypt log file 2016-06-14 07:50:04,907:DEBUG:letsencrypt.storage:Should renew, less than 30 days be…

Letsencrypt renew not working with cronjob, manually it works

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As I said earlier, it is usually because the cron sees a bit different environment. You may need to export extended PATH in that script you have created. See this thread as a reference on fixing similar issue:

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