Hi All,
Why I am getting the following:
[root@localhost opt]# sh certbot renew
/usr/bin/certbot: line 3: requires: command not found
/usr/bin/certbot: line 4: import: command not found
/usr/bin/certbot: line 5: from: command not found
/usr/bin/certbot: certbot: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token newline' /usr/bin/certbot: certbot: line 8: sys.exit(’
[root@localhost opt]#
any body please help?
Your certbot is a Python program, not a shell script.
(certbot-auto, an alternative way to install Certbot, is in fact a shell script, which does some setup and then executes the Python program. “sh certbot” would have worked if you were using it before.)
What if you just run “certbot renew” without “sh” in front?
I forgot to put sh in front… but the problem still occurs!..
I installed certbot-auto:
wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto && chmod a+x certbot-auto
and mv certbot-auto to /etc/letsencrypt
and try it --> sh certbot-auto renew
and now it works as expected …
and now I have changed my crontab to 0 6,23 * * * sh /etc/letsencrypt/certbot-auto renew
if you found something missing . please let me know…
thanks
I don't understand -- Certbot was already installed, probably using your OS's package manager.
Why did you want to install it twice?
If you can, please don't run it at exactly 06:00:00 and 23:00:00.
You can use something like this to run it at completely random times:
0 */12 * * * perl -e 'sleep int(rand(43200))' && sh /etc/letsencrypt/certbot-auto renew
There may already be another cron job or systemd timer set up by your other Certbot installation.
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well noted!.. thanks a lot!
When you do this, you don't need to run it as sh /etc/letsencrypt/certbot-auto, you can run it directly as /etc/letsencrypt/certbot-auto. The certbot-auto and certbot programs (written respectively in the Bourne shell and Python) both start with shebang lines that tell the operating system which scripting language interpreter to use to execute them.
So you don't have to specify the interpreter when running them, as long as they are marked executable in the filesystem.
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