Fair enough. I changed to use the intermediate /root/certbot.sh script,
where I took out the "certbot -q renew ||" portion of the line, in the
hope of restarting nginx properly. I added that additional script layer
so as to separate the (temporary) logging from the certbot invocation
command.

And, the "-q" means "quiet" (I must have tried "man certbot" that at the
time :-)) so I also removed that. So far it has produced comforting
logging of well-behaved non-renewal. We'll see what happens in September...

Ralph.

Chandler Wise wrote on 16/07/17 10:22:
> I actually wrote that line. IIRC the Certbot package in Devuan Jessie uses
> systemd in the cron job that it ships with (the exact line is:"test -x
> /usr/bin/certbot -a \! -d /run/systemd/system && perl -e 'sleep
> int(rand(3600))' && certbot -q renew" IIRC) although I forget why (and how)
> I wrote that command.
>
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