Hey all, > By the way, is there any way of setting up an "undelete" for averting this > kind of disaster? My Dad mentioned that Novell Netware has an undelete > which basically puts off really deleting stuff for about 5 days --- unless > it has to because of lack of space. This sounds like a _very_ useful > feature.
Good lord, please NO. Having an "undelete," IMHO, leads to very sloppy practices - better to learn to make backups of important data - and to use the root account with care. Basically, proposing an "undelete" feature is trying to automate against stupidity - and that's a never-ending battle, trying to protect the system from the worst-case scenario user. There were some good suggestions, though - make an alias from rm to 'rm -i' so that you always get prompted against making massive mistakes. I've accidentally deleted a few projects in my own home directory - but I make backups at least once a week and burn them to CD. Even in the event of a catastrophic failure of my hard drive, I only need to buy a new drive and copy my home directory over. Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 43599611 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "It's true what they say...you can never go home again, but I guess you can shop there." -- Martin Blank "Grosse Point Blank"
