Let's Encrypt Is Ending Expiration Notice Emails https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/06/0028228/lets-encrypt-is-ending-expiration-notice-emails?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

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Kinda sad 😢
Knowing beforehand that I have to dedicate more time to debugging the way certbot gets run from crontab was really nice.

@m0xee @slashdot I just have a sticky note remainder (forgets anyway)

@romin
> sticky
E-ew! 😖
Too many reminders on too many different days — and they would get triggered even if certbot succeeded.
Of course there are other services that check your cert validity, I think they've been giving a link to one in the email about shutting down their notifications, but…
It would probably be easier to implement sending notifications if certbot fails 😅
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@romin
OMFG, in my latest case it turned out certbot was failing due to machine hosting Plenomer being to-o slo-ow and nginx had been failing to reload the configs in time to respond to the challenge properly, adding "--nginx-sleep-seconds=5" resolved the issue 🤣
I was THIS 🤏 close to just giving up figuring what's wrong with the config and resorting to webroot method 😅
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@m0xee @slashdot I just manually run dehydrated every 3 months, no python bloat here

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It took me about a week to figure out why python bloat segfaults on this machine — no surprises though: newer GCC produces buggy binaries for PowerPC 😩
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