Bonjour Ludovic, Thanks for the heads up with respect to the broken URL. I'll check why it hasn't made it there yet. In the meantime, the source can be found here:
http://people.debian.org/~francois/safe-rm-0.2.tar.gz On 2008-06-08 at 15:20:20, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > What are the benefits compared with "chattr +i file" to make the file > immutable and protect it from erasure? You're right, that's another good solution. In fact, I'll add your solution to the safe-rm README file. Thanks for the suggestion! Here are a few advantages of safe-rm over chattr +i: - non-root users can blacklist their own directories (in addition to the system-wide ones) - no dependency on a filesystem feature, so you can protect vfat and nfs mounts too - there is an easy way to bypass this protection temporarily if you really need to (call /bin/rm.real directly) - easy to setup: the default install after apt-getting safe-rm will protect usual system directories (e.g. /usr/, /etc, /var, /bin, ...) without any extra steps In the README file I also mention other approaches which may be more appropriate depending on your needs: delsafe http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~nx0yew/delsafe/ libtrashcan http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libtrash-0.2/readme.html Cheers, Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
