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Date:      19 Aug 2002 13:57:30 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robin Carey <robin@constellation.wizardsworks.org>
Subject:   Re: Two questions :)
Message-ID:  <44fzxan33p.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208191044010.3511-100000@constellation.wizardsworks.org>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208191044010.3511-100000@constellation.wizardsworks.org>

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Robin Carey <robin@constellation.wizardsworks.org> writes:

> 1) Is there a tool for "properly" deleting files ? I am taking about
> over-writing or zeroing the hard-disk here, thereby ensuring nobody could
> analyse the hard-disk and retrieve a rm'd file. Surely such a tool should
> be a command line option to rm(1) or something...

It is.  And it's documented in the manual page for rm(1).

> 2) Isn't it about time somebody wrote a nice GUI interface for all the
> system administration tasks ? I'd volunteer to do it myself, but I don't
> think I'm enough of a guru for that :) Sorta like a much improved version
> of /stand/sysinstall ....

There *are* some tools for this (see webmin in the ports, for example),
but such tools aren't as useful as you'd think at first glance -- for
reasons that in no way reflect badly on the authors.  

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