Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2023-09-12, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I currently have Ubuntu installed. [...] So far, my biggest gripe is >>> sudo this, sudo that. Dang, give me root and be done with it. :/ >>> I did try, no freaking password for the thing. I gotta google that >>> tho. There has to be a way. >> $ sudo bash - >> >> It's been a while since I tried it, but you used to be able to set a >> password for root. IIRC, it was as simple as >> >> $ sudo passwd root >> >> > This last one seemed the simplest and easiest. I might add, it also > worked. Now I don't have to sudo every time I want to take a breath or > something. Most any of them would have helped but now I can just login > as root. I have to be a user at first over ssh tho, if I recall > correctly. That's OK tho. It will still save me a lot of typing and I > don't have to guess what needs it and what doesn't. > > I got me a little nap so I'm banging at it again. Going to see what > still works after a reboot. If some services didn't start, got to > figure that out too. Hopefully they will. I can ssh in so far. lol > Dig around and see what is the same as rc-status. Surely they have > something. Off to duckduckgo I go. > > Oh, I found the forums. Yikes. O_O If I get this all set up. I'll > move the drives over and redo my backups, again. > > Thanks to all. > > Yay!! > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
I may have found a added bonus on this. Some may recall long ago when I switched to Truenas that the transfer speed was pretty slow, like 30MBs/sec or something, sometimes slower. Some of you tried to help figure out why but it seemed everything was working as it should. At this time, I'm copying from a encrypted file system but its on a fast machine. I'm copying to a file system that is not encrypted but a less powerful machine. This is over the same 1GB ethernet. The /mnt part is the slower machine, future NAS box. dale@fireball / $ rsync -av --progress /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Rescue_images/Manjaro/manjaro-kde-21.0.4-210506-linux510.iso /mnt/tmpdisk/dale/ sending incremental file list manjaro-kde-21.0.4-210506-linux510.iso 2,880,800,768 100% 140.61MB/s 0:00:19 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) sent 2,881,504,223 bytes received 35 bytes 97,678,110.44 bytes/sec total size is 2,880,800,768 speedup is 1.00 dale@fireball / $ I picked a fair sized file so it would take a bit longer and give better average results. If it can still do this when I have the file system encrypted on the slower machine, this will be much better. About 3 times faster give or take. I have no idea why the difference tho. I'm kinda surprised at the difference really. Then again, I was surprised at the slow speed of the Truenas box too. While Ubuntu is different, it isn't bad. The systemd thing is different. I had to duckduckgo, DDG, a few things but eventually I got there. Of course, some helped me here as well. Still, I had to DDG a lot. By the way, Google kept popping up a captcha thing every time I went there so I switched. I contacted google to try to help them sort out a fix for months with little to no change. In my last message, I informed them I had switched. For Linux searches, it seems to do better than google at times. My next test, boot up and be able to manage the NAS box with no keyboard or mouse attached. I don't see any reason that shouldn't work. One other thing, I'd like to have it not access the internet at all times. I'd like to turn on the connection to the internet, do updates, install new stuff etc and then turn it off. Is there a easy way to do this? It is hooked to a router so may need to be done there. Keep in mind, I transfer/rsync/copy files over the same connection to the router. All my rigs are connected to a router and data transfers from one to the other through the router. The router sends internet traffic to the internet. That's why I figure it may need to be done in the router. Thanks to all for the help. Plan to redo backups once I done some more testing. Dale :-) :-)
