Specify –domain with –cron option

[OzTechGeek]

Hi All,

Wondering if there is a way to specify the “—domain” option when using the “—cron” option?

The reason I ask is, I changed servers at my hosting provider and for some reason they have their SSH Timeout set to 5 minutes, but it’s set for the session itself and not as an idle timeout, I have tried getting them to change it or have a setting specific to my account, but they said it’s a global setting and cannot be set on a per user basis.

And this is where the problem occurs, I have 6 domain names which I use acme.sh for, the problem is when the cron job runs, because of sleep tiemouts etc during renewal. I can only get about 3 domains to renew automatically, I have to go in and manually do the rest each time the cron job runs.

My current crontab looks like this:

"$HOME/.acme.sh/acme.sh" --cron --home "$HOME/.acme.sh" --config-home "$HOME/.acme.sh/config" –force

I tried setting a cron job for each domain at different time intervals, but the problem is I do not get any Pushover notifications when the cron job runs, unless I’m missing an option somewhere, I tried using this crontab entry for each domain:

"$HOME/.acme.sh/acme.sh" --renew --domain $DOMAIN_NAME ; "$HOME/.acme.sh/acme.sh" --deploy --deploy-hook cpanel_uapi --domain $DOMAIN_NAME

Is there a way to specify the “—domain” option in the “—cron” command line, or if I have to do the “—renew” and “—deploy” options for each domain, that is fine, but how do I get notifications to work also?

What commands does the “—cron” option execute?

Thanks for your time and help

[Neilpang]

don't add --force option for --cron command. It will issue certs everyday.

What commands does the “—cron” option execute?

don't add any other options to --cron. The --cron command only trys to : 1. load the configs of every certs. 2. and renew the certs if needed.

There can be many certs(with different domains) on your system, the --cron command has to check all of them one by one. It doesn't make any sense to add --domain for --cron.

[OzTechGeek]

@Neilpang

Thanks for the reply, I should clarify, that my actual cron job only runs on the 1st of every month at 12am, the actual crontab looks like this:

0 0 1 * * "$HOME/.acme.sh/acme.sh" --cron --home "$HOME/.acme.sh" --config-home "$HOME/.acme.sh/config" --force

Since I need to space out the renewals becuase of the cron job getting terminated by my hosting provider after 5 minutes, is there a way to enable notifications when using

"$HOME/.acme.sh/acme.sh" --renew --domain $DOMAIN_NAME ; "$HOME/.acme.sh/acme.sh" --deploy --deploy-hook cpanel_uapi --domain $DOMAIN_NAME

Or are notifications only enabled with --cron?

Thanks again.

[Neilpang]

please upgrade to the latest dev branch, it can send notifications in "renew".

acme.sh --upgrade -b dev

Let me know if this is what you want.

Thanks

[OzTechGeek]

@Neilpang

Thank You, tested and verified from both command line and a cron job, works like a charm :)

DOMAIN_NAME="domain.tld" ; $HOME/.acme.sh/acme.sh --home $HOME/.acme.sh --config-home $HOME/.acme.sh/config --renew --domain $DOMAIN_NAME

The above command performs the following perfectly:

1. Renews certificate for specified domain
2. Deploys renewed certificate for specified domain
3. Sends Pushover notification of renewal for specified domain

Thanks again much appriciated