[15:29] <dobbicorp> so i have a mail server and i have a new server without mail, i want to be able to send emails from php
[15:32] <patdk-lap> !nullmailer
[15:32] <patdk-lap> oh, wrong channel
[15:32] <patdk-lap> you just need to install a nullmailer
[15:33] <patdk-lap> be it like, msmtp or whatever you want to use
[15:45] <dobbicorp> patdk-lap: will it be able to work over tunnel?
[15:48] <patdk-lap> everything works over a tunnel
[19:18] <nominal_value> hey all, why do i always have this issue with spinning up a new ubuntu server install, where even if i create a dns record and a dhcp reservation, i cant get the IP address i am asking for?
[19:22] <nominal_value> this works perfectly fine for all other hosts on our network
[19:25] <nominal_value> also, this is a hyperv vm, which again......works fine for other vms
[19:26] <JanC> define "other VMs"?
[19:26] <nominal_value> windows, linux
[19:26] <JanC> DNS records shouldn't have anything to do with it
[19:26] <nominal_value> i know, im just getting desperate
[19:26] <nominal_value> lol
[19:27] <JanC> are the ubuntu server installs configured to use DHCP?
[19:27] <nominal_value> doesnt matter
[19:27] <nominal_value> dhcp should work with the reservation, and static should work as assigned
[19:28] <nominal_value> Having said that, a contributing factor may be that the installer crashes after assigning disks etc
[19:28] <nominal_value> BUT
[19:28] <JanC> if you set a static IP address that should work obviously
[19:28] <nominal_value> this IS an issue we constantly have
[19:28] <nominal_value> regardless of where in the steps of the installer we are
[19:29] <JanC> crashing? then it's not installed fully?
[19:30] <nominal_value> correct
[19:30] <nominal_value> but read aboce
[19:30] <nominal_value> above
[19:31] <arraybolt3[m]> If the installer crashes, then it's easily believable that some configuration steps got missed. The VM may appear to behave (shoot I've used systems that only half installed and then crashed as my daily driver in the past), but it may also misbehave in some ways.
[19:31] <arraybolt3[m]> So it might solve the problem if we try to debug why the installer is crashing.
[19:32] <arraybolt3[m]> (I guess the systems I've used after a crashed install didn't only get half way through installation, but you know what I'm trying to say.)
[19:33] <sarnold> nominal_value: it's probably worth a bug report
[19:33] <patdk-lap> I have only seen this once
[19:33] <patdk-lap> and it was due to a bad intel wifi driver/linux kernel
[19:33] <patdk-lap> write to ext4 would get corrupted after the intel wifi driver was loaded
[19:34] <patdk-lap> I had to disable the wifi on my laptop to get it installed, update kernel, then all was fine
[19:34] <sarnold> patdk-lap: *ooof* :) that's some bug
[19:34] <patdk-lap> but that was like in 2008
[19:34] <patdk-lap> ya, I couldn't figure out how the drive kept getting corrupted
[19:34] <patdk-lap> finally started disabling things one by one, till the wifi fixed it
[19:37] <nominal_value> yeesh lame
[19:38] <JanC> makes you wonder what has wifi to do with ext4 (or maybe still ext3 back then?)
[19:40] <patdk-lap> no idea, I just think the stack was getting corrupted or something
[19:56] <sdeziel> this makes me want to try installing Ubuntu on top of an iSCSI disk accessed through Wifi ;)
[20:07] <dobbicorp> can i just move ssl certificate obtained by certbot to a new server?
[20:15] <patdk-lap> only if you wish to
[20:23] <nominal_value> ok, it turns out this is an issue with Hyper-V as the clock source
[20:23] <nominal_value> strange
[23:07] <nominal_value> grrr ok so if i set a static ip in the ubuntu server setup, the installer crashes at asking for a password