to shell, or not to shell...

[ChristianW]

Hi people,

At least since I wanted to change the hostname of FreeNAS, I have in mind, that there are several things you should do over the FreeNAS GUI. Now I was looking for a thread, that has some kind of a collection of do's and don'ts for the FreeNAS shell.

In specific I'm wondering, whether it is a good idea to change file permissions on command line, or not.

Is there such a thread around here, but I didn't find it?

Christian

 

[dlavigne]

Unless the Guide indicates that you should run something from the command line, don't make any configuration changes in Shell as they won't be written to the configuration database.

 

[pirateghost]

The general rule is: if it can be done from the web gui, it needs to be done from there.

 

[ChristianW]

Hey, thank you for your quick answers!
Ok, that is an interesting rule. I was asking, because of my root user issue in GUI, where I can't change permissions over the GUI anymore. But since it is supposed to be done by GUI, I should fix the issue first...
Thank you!

 

[pirateghost]

I don't know what root user issue you are referring to.

If you can't change things from the root account in the GUI, then you have some major problems with your server

 

[ChristianW]

If you can't change things from the root account in the GUI, then you have some major problems with your server

Jep, I do think so, too.
I found some updates today for FreeNAS, that point in this kind of direction, but I'm not sure in making updates while there is this strange root user behavior... :-/