# Renew all certificate using cron **URL:** \ **Category:** Server\ **Created:** [October 15, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renew-all-certificate-using-cron/21162 "2016-10-15T14:45:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![danjde](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/danjde/32/8575_2.png) [@danjde](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/danjde)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renew-all-certificate-using-cron/21162/6 "2016-10-17T15:59:50Z")
Hi \_fluffy, and thanks for your help. > [@\_fluffy](#): > > That command doesn't look right to me - do you really have the certbot-auto program itself installed directly in /etc? You are right, I had taken an "old" usage example. certbot is on /usb/bin/ > [@\_fluffy](#): > > however the standard configuration suggests running twice a day to handle revocations et al However if the certificate can be renewed starting from one month before the deadline, don't just run it once a week? 😕 5 8 \* \* Sat /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet -renew-hook "service apache2 reload" --- _[View the full topic](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/renew-all-certificate-using-cron/21162)._