From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 31 20:55:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5882B37B400 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:55:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16WVjX-000NSx-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 04:55:31 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id D481844F6B; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:55:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:55:30 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting files in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020201045530.GB3088@raggedclown.net> References: <3C592B0C.19515.5B356B@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Alvaro Rosales > > R. > > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 11:31 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Deleting files in FreeBSD > > > > > > Hi folks Can you tell me if there is > > a way to recover a deleted file in FreeBSD?? I mean is there > > something like the recycle bin of Micro$oft Windows 9X ? , If > > there is , > > Hown can I use it? is it enabled by default?? does it give > > you information of Who deleted the file and at what time did the > > deletion ocurr??. > > I am using my FreeBSD server to share files with my Windows > > clients using SAMBA and I would like to > > have some control over the files my users delete in the server, I > > had some experience with Novell Netware servers and they > > had an utility that kept track of the files the users deleted from the > > server and then you coul use an utility called salvage to recover > > this files. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > There was a question about this a short while ago, you can implement a "safe" rm, which does not really remove files, just squirrels them away somewhere for a while (this is commonly done on Unix systems, but is not quite what you are looking for I think). I believe however that there was mention of a Sourceforge project on this, if you look back through the archives you may find it, or perhaps someone remembers it. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message