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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services/certbot.scm | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index fb2834942b..03cd2d5d71 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 ng0@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016, 2017 Jan Nieuwenhuizen@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Julien Lepiller@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Alex ter Weele@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Clément Lassieur@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018 Clément Lassieur@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Mathieu Othacehe@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Federico Beffa@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Carlo Zancanaro@* @@ -15735,6 +15735,12 @@ generation, the initial certification request to the Let's Encrypt service, the web server challenge/response integration, writing the certificate to disk, and the automated periodic renewals. +Certbot is run twice a day, at a random minute within the hour. It +won't do anything until your certificates are due for renewal or +revoked, but running it regularly would give your service a chance of +staying online in case a Let's Encrypt-initiated revocation happened for +some reason. + @defvr {Scheme Variable} certbot-service-type A service type for the @code{certbot} Let's Encrypt client. @end defvr diff --git a/gnu/services/certbot.scm b/gnu/services/certbot.scm index 91249ed3e3..1728d126f4 100644 --- a/gnu/services/certbot.scm +++ b/gnu/services/certbot.scm @@ -65,10 +65,10 @@ (() '()) (_ (list - ;; Attempt to renew the certificates twice a week. - #~(job (lambda (now) - (next-day-from (next-hour-from now '(3)) - '(2 5))) + ;; Attempt to renew the certificates twice per day, at a random + ;; minute within the hour. See + ;; https://certbot.eff.org/all-instructions/. + #~(job '(next-minute-from (next-hour '(0 12)) (list (random 60))) (string-append #$package "/bin/certbot renew" (string-concatenate (map (lambda (host) |