XigmaNAS

Hello everyone,
Why is it that when i customize a php page of the webgui and save it, it works well till i restart my nas. Simply restarting nas reverts all the changes back. How do i keep the changes?
Thank you for your help.

you have the embedded install.

all system files are in a ram disk which doesn't get saved to the file system.
so upon a restart all changes are lost.

two possible solutions.
do a full install
or
create a postinit script
http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php?id=do ... nd_scripts
that copies the files at every boot.

b0ssman wrote:you have the embedded install.

all system files are in a ram disk which doesn't get saved to the file system.
so upon a restart all changes are lost.

two possible solutions.
do a full install
or
create a postinit script
http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php?id=do ... nd_scripts
that copies the files at every boot.

Hello b0ssman,
thank you for your reply. I have read about postinit scripts before but i have no idea how to write one. For example, let's say that i have modified the file "status_disk.php" with a code that shows temperature of disks that's above 30 in red color. How do i use that postinit scripts to make sure that file always has the code when i restart the nas?

Hi chachi420,

you can also use crest's extended gui, this shows the temperatures already in different and much more:
viewtopic.php?f=71&t=6405

crowi wrote:Hi chachi420,

you can also use crest's extended gui, this shows the temperatures already in different and much more:
viewtopic.php?f=71&t=6405

Hey crowi,
Yes i have seen this wonderful extension and was thinking about implementing it as soon as i can but till then i wanted to keep learning all these different things so is there a way you can teach me how to create some sort of extension like that to be able to make a fix page like this?

is there a way you can teach me how to create some sort of extension like that to be able to make a fix page like this

Sorry, no, I am not good at php, you need to ask crest or one of the developers

chachi420 wrote: Hello b0ssman,
thank you for your reply. I have read about postinit scripts before but i have no idea how to write one. For example, let's say that i have modified the file "status_disk.php" with a code that shows temperature of disks that's above 30 in red color. How do i use that postinit scripts to make sure that file always has the code when i restart the nas?

just execute the command that copies your file over the old one

cp /mnt/<disk>/file.php /<locaiton of the other file/file.php

b0ssman wrote:

chachi420 wrote: Hello b0ssman,
thank you for your reply. I have read about postinit scripts before but i have no idea how to write one. For example, let's say that i have modified the file "status_disk.php" with a code that shows temperature of disks that's above 30 in red color. How do i use that postinit scripts to make sure that file always has the code when i restart the nas?

just execute the command that copies your file over the old one

cp /mnt/<disk>/file.php /<locaiton of the other file/file.php

Oh alright that makes sense. Now the question is where exactly are these php files located? Because i use the file editor on the webgui to access those webgui php files but i actually dont know their exact path. Also, just to make sure that i understand what you just said, i make a copy of the file that i just edited on my hdd (because a file on the hdd will obv never change with reboot) and have that file be copied to the location of the actual webgui file and replace it. Correct?

just ssh into the machine and search for the file using the find command.
and yes to your question

b0ssman wrote:just ssh into the machine and search for the file using the find command.
and yes to your question

Sounds good. Ill give it a shot. Just installed the extension btw. It's dope!