I have setup a cronjob for renewals, and although the cron will run, it will never renew the cert. it always returns the following in the log file (replaced mydomain with dummy): Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/mydomain.conf All renewal attempts failed. The following certs could not be renewed…

I already did, I don’t think it applies since my cron runs just fine. There is no error msg related to the command not being able to run as in your other thread.

The fact that command starts does not necessarily mean it successfully runs (to clarify - the process might start, spawn or attempt to spawn an external process relying on particular environment variables to be present, return from that with an exit code indicating the failure and terminate). Change…

I agree with you that you’ve got a different problem here, since indeed that output is from the letsencrypt client code running. However, I think the 2>&1 trick (what that does is send the output named stderr, used for errors, to join the standard output) is still a good idea, and also you might co…

Thanks for the advice I will modify the cron and check the logs.

slightly off topic but nice to know - I use 2>&1 if I’m piping the output, but if there’s a redirect to a logfile, it’s shorter and clearer to run command &>> logfile.log. Enjoy!

[image] seefood: it's shorter and clearer to run command &>> Except that it doesn't always work (depends on the shell)

Renew runs but always fails in crontab, works in shell

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