From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 10:57:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEC837B401 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:57:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853E843E3B for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7JHvVtr030836; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:57:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7JHvU8n030833; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:57:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robin Carey Subject: Re: Two questions :) References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 Aug 2002 13:57:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44fzxan33p.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Robin Carey 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