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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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