Re: Certbot excessive logging

[Imran Hussain <imranh@sucs.org>]

On 11.02.2017 08:35, Saint Germain wrote:
> With certbot 0.9.3-1~bpo8+2 on Debian Jessie (amd64), I got these
> messages every 12 hours:
> Feb 10 00:00:01 systemd[1]: Starting Certbot...
> Feb 10 00:41:37 systemd[1]: Started Certbot.
> Feb 10 12:00:01 systemd[1]: Starting Certbot...
> Feb 10 12:29:38 systemd[1]: Started Certbot.
>
> I reported the problem here:
> https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/4210
>
> But I've been told that the problem was in the systemd timer shipped 
> in
> the certbot package and that I should report it here.
>
> Let me know if you need something else in order to turn these 
> messages
> off.

Not really a backport specific issue as it is just part of the debian 
certbot package.

What you're seeing is the cron job that is run to renew certs. This'll 
give you more insight:

> cat /etc/cron.d/certbot

On my systems I replaced "0 */12 * * *" "@monthly", might be worth 
emails the maintainers/filing a bug about having this configurable via 
debconf.

-Imran

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Imran Hussain
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