[97733] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Is there a 'trashcan' type of application for RH5.0?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Taylor)
Wed Nov 4 18:36:46 1998
From: Bob Taylor <brtaylor@inreach.com>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Nov 1998 09:44:00 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 14:48:54 -0800
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In message <AE2FA63101332D00@c2gate.tcom.co.uk>, KThorpe writes:
> We are considering, after many long years of faithful service, the
> retirement of our Novell server. The one thing we would miss is the fact
> that Novell servers hold on to deleted files until the disk space is needed.
>
> Is there an application to perform this sort of function, saving files in a
> holding area until disk space runs out? Simply replacing rm with a shell
> script isn't enough - we require this behaviour via mars_nwe or samba.
What I think I would do is modify the rm sources to mv/cp the file(s) to
a directory (trashcan). I would handle duplicate file names by prefixing
the path to the name replacing the '/' with another character ('!'). I
would then run a cron job deleting files in that directory according to
age.
Just a thought.
Bob
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