W0L@psuvm.psu.edu (Bill Lasher) (04/07/90)
If a user accidently rm's a file, is there a way to get it back (other than the backup tape)? I'm thinking of utilities similar to those available for DOS.
doelz@urz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) (04/09/90)
How to avoid removal of files ? You could use an alias for rm which does an ln to a dumpster as the workspace supposedly does so. All these methods are critical if your disk is close to 100% full. Therefore, we use to run a crontab which does 'empty trash' by purpose once in a while. - Reinhard
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") (04/10/90)
What a lot of places do is to alias rm to mv and move files to a temporary directory. Then at the end of the day or when ever, all files in the temporary directory are removed. This gives a person a chance to recover accidentally removed files. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 361 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov