diff --git a/certbot/docs/install.rst b/certbot/docs/install.rst index df32bb60e..aefe1809e 100644 --- a/certbot/docs/install.rst +++ b/certbot/docs/install.rst @@ -243,6 +243,8 @@ Certbot-Auto We used to have a shell script named ``certbot-auto`` to help people install Certbot on UNIX operating systems, however, this script is no longer supported. +If you want to uninstall ``certbot-auto``, you can follow our instructions +:doc:`here `. Problems with Python virtual environment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/certbot/docs/uninstall.rst b/certbot/docs/uninstall.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..65151242c --- /dev/null +++ b/certbot/docs/uninstall.rst @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +========================= +Uninstalling certbot-auto +========================= + +To uninstall ``certbot-auto``, you need to do three things: + +1. If you added a cron job or systemd timer to automatically run + ``certbot-auto`` to renew your certificates, you should delete it. If you + did this by following our instructions, you can delete the entry added to + ``/etc/crontab`` by running a command like ``sudo sed -i '/certbot-auto/d' + /etc/crontab``. +2. Delete the ``certbot-auto`` script. If you placed it in ``/usr/local/bin`` + like we recommended, you can delete it by running ``sudo rm + /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto``. +3. Delete the Certbot installation created by ``certbot-auto`` by running + ``sudo rm -rf /opt/eff.org``.