Renewing: unable to find renew-hook

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Hi friends,
On Debian Jessie, and using certbot 0.8.1-2~bpo8+1, running the renew command by cron:

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet --renew-hook "service apache2 reload"

Obtain on root email this message:

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Unable to find renew-hook command service in the PATH.

Where:

Unable to find renew-hook command service in the PATH.
(PATH is /usr/bin:/bin)

worries me. Why this message? :grimacing:

Many many thanks!

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Hello @danjde,

service command is located on /usr/sbin/ so you should add that dir to PATH var on crontab or specify the full path on your command line.

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet --renew-hook "/usr/sbin/service apache2 reload"

Cheers,
sahsanu

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The PATH environment variable is different between the user you're using with SSH et c. and the user cron is running as.

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Very thanks to all!
Now is clear for me too :innocent:

Thanks again!

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