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Re: Is there a 'trashcan' type of application for RH5.0?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. Neidorff)
Thu Nov 5 05:35:35 1998

Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 18:46:02 -0500
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From: "M. Neidorff" <neidorff@CYBERNEX.NET>
In-Reply-To: <AE2FA63101332D00@c2gate.tcom.co.uk>
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Perhaps its me, but why won't a shell script do what you want?  Did you see
the thread on the trashcan a while back? I know what Novell does and I
really don't see why the script approach won't work.

At 09:44 AM 11/4/98 +0000, you wrote:
>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.
>
>TIA

Mark
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