Bug 2396343 - /usr/libexec/dehydrated-cron should add --keep-going to dehydrated invocation.
Summary: /usr/libexec/dehydrated-cron should add --keep-going to dehydrated invocation.
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: dehydrated
Version: epel9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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low
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Assignee: Paul Wouters
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2025-09-18 10:11 UTC by Alex Owen
Modified: 2025-09-18 10:11 UTC (History)
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Description Alex Owen 2025-09-18 10:11:48 UTC
Description of problem:

The dehydrated package in EPEL 9 helpfully runs dehydrated periodically out of /usr/libexec/dehydrated-cron

However dehydrated is only run with the --cron switch, thus:

/usr/bin/dehydrated --cron 2>&1 | tee -a ${tempfile}

In my opinion in a production system the --keep-going switch should also be present to minimise problems where multiple certificates are being managed by dehydrated.

I request and suggest the invocation of dehydrated is changed to:

/usr/bin/dehydrated --cron --keep-going 2>&1 | tee -a ${tempfile}


(As a secondary observation I believe the script could be improved by piping the dehydrated output to something like '/usr/bin/logger -p daemon.info -t dehydrated' to preserve the output in the system logs. But others may disagree!)

Regards
Alex Owen


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