# Problem renewing certs from cron job

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/problem-renewing-certs-from-cron-job/38464>\
**Category:** Server\
**Created:** [July 19, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/problem-renewing-certs-from-cron-job/38464 "2017-07-19T19:09:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![karaluh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@karaluh](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/karaluh)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/problem-renewing-certs-from-cron-job/38464/12 "2017-07-27T11:17:26Z")

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I have this exact same issue.

> pip install --upgrade setuptools

upgraded setuptools-36.2.1 to setuptools-36.2.4 which obviously didn't fix the issue because certbot sees version 0.9.8 for some reason. Any ideas besides switching to shell script?

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