Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:33:26 -0600 From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> To: "Chris Pressey" <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)?? Message-ID: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718264@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu>
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Chris - Thank you very much. I'll just modify "autoclave.sh" to use gshred instead of shred. Thanks again, Ben=20 -----Original Message----- From: Chris Pressey [mailto:cpressey@catseye.mine.nu]=20 Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:17 PM To: Pratt, Benjamin E. Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)?? On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:55:07 -0600 "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> wrote: > Chris - >=20 > It doesn't look like they do quite what I'd like. Here's the man page > for shred (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1). Shred is > used in a shell script called Autoclave > (http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/) to securely wipe a > hard drive before getting rid of it. I've attached the "autoclave.sh" > script (as long as attachments are allowed, ask me for it if you don't > get the attachment). >=20 > Ben Ben, My bad! Shred *does* indeed exist on FreeBSD; it's part of /usr/ports/sysutils/fileutils and it's installed as 'gshred' (because all the fileutils are prefixed with a 'g' to avoid collisions with BSD versions of the same tools.) You should be able to install the fileutils port, create a symbolic link from 'shred' to 'gshred', and run the autoclave script. HTH, -Chris
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