Re: certbot

I think I saw that in the docs…I could never have come up with that on my
own. I think it's to reduce any spikes (like midnight as it crosses time
zones).

On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 6:11 PM Souji Thenria <mail@souji-thenria.net>
wrote:

> On Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM BST, paul beard wrote:
> > 00 00 * * Sun   python -c 'import random; import time;
> > time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && /usr/local/bin/certbot renew
> > --renew-hook 'service nginx reload'
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Out of pure curiosity:
> Is there a reason why you sleep for a random number of hours (supposed
> time.sleep() takes seconds as input parameter) before executing the
> certbot?
>
> Regards,
> Souji
>
>

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