With the good work by "Let’s Encrypt" in providing free SSL certs for users, I wanted a quick way to check all the domains I look after to determine which ones have correct SSL certs, and which ones are in need of updating etc. This bash file is the first draft of a program to do that. It can either be run against a list of file names, from the directories in your Lets Encrypt live directory or on a single server with the aim of getting all the domain names from the server. The output looks like: Domain cert for valid until cert issued by possible issues? domain1.com domain1.com Dec 22 09:19:00 2016 Let's Encrypt - certificate near renewal date domain2.com domain2.com Dec 22 11:42:00 2016 Let's Encrypt - certificate near renewal date domain3.net domain3.net Mar 4 10:10:00 2016 Let's Encrypt domain4.net domain1.net Mar 2 12:23:00 2016 Let's Encrypt - possible name mismatch You can also get a list of domains that need to be renewed, to list the domains requiring renewal in the nest 20 days; checkssl -l /etc/letsencrypt/live/ -e 20 -r domain7.com domain12.com You can also get it to run a specific command if domains need renewal, for example check -i ISPconfig -e 20 -c ~/scripts/renewssl will run the renewssl command with the domain name passed as an argument. If there are more than one domain that needs renewal it will call the command multiple times. This can then easily be run as a cron to regularly check and update SSL certs. running checkssl with no arguments gives help; checkssl checkssl ver. 0.7 checks ssl certs for a set of domains Usage: checkssl [-h|--help] [-d|--debug] [-f|--file filename] [-s|--server stype] [-l|--location directory] [-e|--expires days] [-r:--renew] [domain] Options: -h, --help Display this help message and exit. -d, --debug outputs debug information -f, --file filename Where 'filename' is a file containing a list of domain names -s, --server server_type Where 'server_type' is the server type (cpanel, ISPconfig, apache2 ...) -l, --location directory Where 'directory' is where your lets encrypt live directory is (typically /etc/letsencrypt/live/) -e, --expires days Where 'days' is the number of days to alert if cert expires in that time period -r, --renew this just lists domain names that need to be renewed. This list could be used by an auto renew script, or to email you. -c, --command run-command Where 'run-command' is a command to be run if certificates are due for renewal. V0.1 initial commit by SRVRCO v0.2 modification by MrSleeps v0.3 corrected issue in grep affecting performance on some servers v0.4 correct typo and added -e and -r arguments v0.5 added --command option v0.6 added ability to add domain name on command line v0.7 Updated after using shellcheck to maintain a better coding standard