dehydrated-cron(1)

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💖 dehydrated-cron(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN. this is the manual page for dehydrated-cron, a little script from the dehydrated-tools-extra collection, and it's literally the unpaid intern who renews your TLS certs while you sleep. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

dehydrated-cron — the dehydrated cronjob for automatic certificate renewal. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dehydrated-cron

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. zero flags, zero arguments, it just GOES. 👑

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so, for context: dehydrated is a client for ACME-based Certificate Authorities, like LetsEncrypt, and it can be used to request and obtain TLS certificates from an ACME-based certificate authority. iconic behaviour fr fr. 💅

the dehydrated-cron script runs dehydrated once per day and on system reboot, so your certificate renewal is fully automatic. she's self-sufficient, she doesn't need you checking up on her. 🫶

also, she uses the dehydrated --keep-going option so that if one certificate errors out while creating/renewing a whole batch, she keeps going instead of dramatically collapsing. we love resilience. afterwards she also removes all unused certificates by using the dehydrated --cleanup-delete option. tidy queen. ✨

✨ USAGE ✨

🌸 Installation 🌸

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/dehydrated-cron /etc/cron.d/dehydrated

🌸 Removal 🌸

sudo rm -f /etc/cron.d/dehydrated

cause sometimes you gotta let go. it's giving closure. 💀

✨ FILES ✨

here's every file she's entangled with:

  • /etc/cron.d/dehydrated — the cronjob file. this is what makes the magic happen on schedule. ⏰
  • /usr/bin/dehydrated-cron — the actual script that gets executed by cron. main character energy.
  • /var/log/dehydrated/dehydrated.log — the logfile for dehydrated-cron. go read it if you're nosy like me. 📖

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ HOMEPAGE ✨

more information about dehydrated-tools-extra can be found on the homepage — <https://open-infrastructure.net>. go click it, iykyk. 🌈

✨ CONTACT ✨

bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are welcome on <https://git.open-infrastructure.net>. seriously, everything else. bring your chaos. 🎀

Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System at <https://bugs.debian.org>. 💜

✨ AUTHORS ✨

dehydrated-tools-extra was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>. king behaviour, we stan. 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie. all facts intact, nothing skipped, no options invented — certified accurate. 💖

🌸 mwah, that's a wrap! this little beauty lives in section 1 of the manual (general commands), and she belongs to the dehydrated-tools-extra crew. 🧚✨

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