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Cert renewal job fails #6

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The certbot -n renew fails with

Currently, the renew verb is capable of either renewing all installed certificates that are due to be renewed or renewing a single certificate specified by its name. If you would like to renew specific certificates by their domains, use the certonly command instead. The renew verb may provide other options for selecting certificates to renew in the future.

The problem is in cli.ini, where 'domain' should really be 'domains' certbot/certbot#4774 (comment)

Also, because I saw hourly failures trying to email to root in the log, I was curious why that was happening so I set up a root alias in simplelogin and it was the cron job. Because cron will email any output, success or error to root and because certbot -n is too chatty, it would email me hourly that

Cert not yet due for renewal

From cert bot docs https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html:

If you’re sure that this command executes successfully without human intervention, you can add the command to crontab (since certificates are only renewed when they’re determined to be near expiry, the command can run on a regular basis, like every week or every day). In that case, you are likely to want to use the -q or --quiet quiet flag to silence all output except errors.

I can create a pull request this evening to address these fixes if you want me to.

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