file protection with libtrash

[fourhead]

i found a wonderful little tool today: libtrash! libtrash is a little library that is being prelinked to all binaries and then intercepts the 'unlink' and 'rename' of glibc. what this means? well, whenever you delete a file, be it with the 'rm' command, in konqueror, in openoffice or gimp - just anywhere - it doesn't actually gets deleted but moved to ~/Trash (dir is configable). this means you'll never get angry again because you've again deleted an important file by mistake.

libtrash is nicely configurable, you can exclude directories from being 'protected', this is nice for /var or /tmp. you can also exclude certain files from being protected, like .o, .log, .bak and so on. also, you can 'protect' certain dirs even more, for example /usr/bin or /root from being deleted at all. an rm -rf /usr/bin would just return an error.

for anyone who's interested: go to http://m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash/ download it, edit libtrash.conf _BEFORE_ you compile, type make, then make install, and edit your /etc/profile. it's all described in the README.

i hope it's helpful for some of you
tom

[charlieg]

Well, here's the bugzilla entry for an ebuild.

Looks like somebody took it up and then forgot about it. I used my bugzilla janitor superpowers to reassign it to bug-wranglers so hopefully it'll get noticed and sorted out.
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