Hello!

Weekly renewal isn't working on FreeBSD 13.1.

The /usr/local/etc/periodic/weekly500.certbot-3.9 cronjob immediately exits and will not run unless some values are added to /etc/periodic.conf.

I believe the fix is to add a step to the documentation on these pages:

• https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=apache&os=freebsd
• https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=freebsd

Enable automatic renewal

Add these lines to /etc/periodic.conf:

# Let's Encrypt: Weekly renewal
weekly_certbot_enable="YES"
weekly_certbot_service="apache"
weekly_certbot_post_hook="service apache24 restart"
# weekly_certbot_deploy_hook="/tmp/a.sh"
# weekly_certbot_custom_args="--force-renewal"

For the Nginx version of the docs, swap out these two lines in the above block:

weekly_certbot_service="nginx"
weekly_certbot_post_hook="service nginx restart"

Also, the docs have a line that could use an edit. FreeBSD doesn't have systemd.

The Certbot packages on your system come with a cron job or systemd timer that will renew your certificates automatically before they expire.