FrenchFigaro
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- Joined
- Jun 9, 2012
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Hello everyone.
I have the idea of recycling my old desktop (an old Dell machine with a single 250GB SATA disk) into a file server and I am heavily considering FreeNAS for that purpose but before making the jump I had a few questions to which I didn't find any answer on the features page so here they are.
1. I delivered a FreeNAS system for a customer in 2010, back then the CLI used the csh shell and I was wondering if it is possible to install the bash shell, with which I am much more familiar. I know both shells are similar but some instructions are different and I use bash a lot on the side so that would save me the trouble of thinking in csh everytime I deal with the server.
2. I saw on the feature page that BitTorrent plugin was incoming with 8.2, which led me to think that BT is currently unavailable. Since FreeNAS uses the FreeBSD system as a base, I was wondering if I could install the server version of the Transmission client, preferably from the FreeBSD package provided on the website, or as a last resort, could I easily install the libraries needed to build it from source (which I am absolutely and utterly unfamiliar with, but there's nothing a good tutorial can't help you do. And there are plenty of tutorials on the web, aren't there ?)
So in the end these were the two questions I had in mind for the moment.
Thanks
I have the idea of recycling my old desktop (an old Dell machine with a single 250GB SATA disk) into a file server and I am heavily considering FreeNAS for that purpose but before making the jump I had a few questions to which I didn't find any answer on the features page so here they are.
1. I delivered a FreeNAS system for a customer in 2010, back then the CLI used the csh shell and I was wondering if it is possible to install the bash shell, with which I am much more familiar. I know both shells are similar but some instructions are different and I use bash a lot on the side so that would save me the trouble of thinking in csh everytime I deal with the server.
2. I saw on the feature page that BitTorrent plugin was incoming with 8.2, which led me to think that BT is currently unavailable. Since FreeNAS uses the FreeBSD system as a base, I was wondering if I could install the server version of the Transmission client, preferably from the FreeBSD package provided on the website, or as a last resort, could I easily install the libraries needed to build it from source (which I am absolutely and utterly unfamiliar with, but there's nothing a good tutorial can't help you do. And there are plenty of tutorials on the web, aren't there ?)
So in the end these were the two questions I had in mind for the moment.
Thanks