Remove files

[paul beard]

On 10/9/07, William Davis <frstan at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 10, 2007, at 1:23 AM, David Epstein wrote:
>
> > Does MacPorts have a version of rm that does secure removal of
> > files (that is, scribbling over the disk so that info cannot be
> > recovered)? I want this for files about my bank dealings---I'm not
> > referring to files that come from MacPorts downloads.
> >
> > Does MacPorts have a version of rm that (unlike Unix, but like Mac
> > Os X) is undoable?
> >
> > Metaquestion: how would one research this issue before writing in
> > to this list? I tried but failed.
> >
> > Thanks from David.Epstein at warwick.ac.uk
> >
> >
> >
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>
> found it!
>
> william-davis-computer-3:~ frstan$ port search srm
> srm                            sysutils/srm   1.2.8        srm is a
> secure replacement for rm(1).
>
> however after building it I got this:
>
> william-davis-computer-3:~ frstan$ srm testfile
> dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _fdatasync
>    Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/srm
>    Expected in: flat namespace
>
> dyld: Symbol not found: _fdatasync
>    Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/srm
>    Expected in: flat namespace
>
> Trace/BPT trap
>
>
> maybe we can fix that........

Huh. I missed it. I did find that it built just fine from source (yay
for POSIX!).


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