On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:09, Tom Hosiawa wrote: > > I know of no way to recover them, but for the future, create an alias > > rm='cp $1 /tmp' > > > > you just have to set up a cron job or manually remove ,using > > /usr/bin/rm, all the file in tmp every so often. We set this up on > > students computer's. We don't tell them about it so if they do they > > learn a lesson, but can recover it if it's truly important. > > > > You could also log to a syslog server so they can't delete them. Well it > > would just make it more difficult, they'd have to break into both > > machines. > > > > -Mike > > I like that idea, I've lost couple of file by accident before. > > A follow up question though, is there a way to do that with enforcing > options like 'rm -i', this way it first asks if you want to delete them > and then copies the file to /tmp if you answer yes > > Tom
Yeah it's actually saved my butt a time or two. I'd write a small bash/perl script that does the confirmation, then alias it to `rm`. -- Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warp Drive Networks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
