Is there any way to change the configuration of the log rotation method done by certbot? I know I can configure the number of logs (1000 as a default seems very high but that I can at least change), but I don’t see any way to change the naming of the logs. Specifically, the logs are named log/letsen…

Certbot is hardcoded to use RotatingFileHandler . But there is a way to use your own log rotation instead. In fact, certain Certbot distributions already do this: $ cat /etc/letsencrypt/cli.ini # Because we are using logrotate for greater flexibility, disable the # internal certbot logrotation. ma…

Log rotation configuration

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Log rotation configuration

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