I’ve installed certbot through pip on an Ubuntu host. Then, I setup certbot to renew certificates through Systemd timer and server units. I’m running the renew commands as a certbot user and group. Originally, this worked fine. But, It noticed that when certbot rotates logs, the new /var/log/letse…

/var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log always created as root

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