Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:04:36 +0100 From: Marek Krawczyk <marek@mky.waw.pl> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "koobs@FreeBSD.org" <koobs@freebsd.org>, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Another instance of Certbot is already running. Message-ID: <553fa03e7865a31ac5cf789c7e537a1d@mky.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <BN6PR2001MB173089394EF9783804DB692B80390@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> References: <BN6PR2001MB173089394EF9783804DB692B80390@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com>
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Hi! W dniu 2017-12-01 12:27, Carmel NY napisał(a): > FreeBSD 11.1 RELEASE-p5 > > I have been using the p5-certbot port without a problem until > recently. It is being run via cron: /usr/local/bin/certbot -q renew > --pre-hook "service dovecot stop" --post-hook "service dovecot start". > Until recently that worked fine. Now I have started receiving this > error message: "Another instance of Certbot is already running." Try > as I might, I cannot find another instance of "certbot" running. > > Apparently, the only way to correct the problem is to reboot the > system. This only works until after the cron command has run one time, > after which the problem resurfaces. I am hoping that someone might > have a suggestion. I have the same issue with dovecot. The certbot is waiting on the post-hook command, but only when it was ran from cron. If it is running from the shell, the dovecot is restarted properly. Unfortunatelly I did not found solution for this but I can also confirm that the issue exist. Regards, Marek
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