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Add steps to enable weekly renewal on FreeBSD #784
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Hmm. The nginx and Apache instructions should not require the use of If the If something like
Yes, it would seem that the period script is not enabled by default. I will see whether we can get that added, or possibly get the default value changed. |
This is being asked internally to the website team.
and I've raised that question here: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=269427 |
I'm going to assign this to Alexis and Alex for now to get it out of the triage queue since they've both started working on it, but feel free to kick it back my way if you're done working on it and want someone else to take over. |
I was able to figure out what happened on my end. Typically, services are enabled on FreeBSD with lines added to Those instructions only shows once after certbot is installed:
Weeks later, when I figured out renewals were not working, I checked the only documentation I knew of (on certbot.eff.org) but it looked like I had followed all the steps there. It was confusing why things were broken until I did a bunch of digging. If it's decided that the auto-renewal service not be enabled on install, updating the instructions on certbot.eff.org to remind folks to add that line to |
Hello!
Weekly renewal isn't working on FreeBSD 13.1.
The
/usr/local/etc/periodic/weekly500.certbot-3.9
cronjob immediately exits and will not run unless some values are added to/etc/periodic.conf
.I believe the fix is to add a step to the documentation on these pages:
Enable automatic renewal
Add these lines to
/etc/periodic.conf
:For the Nginx version of the docs, swap out these two lines in the above block:
Also, the docs have a line that could use an edit. FreeBSD doesn't have
systemd
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