| 1 | .\" $Id: saferm.1,v 1.2 1999-12-28 15:57:24 ghudson Exp $ |
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| 3 | .\" Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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| 17 | .TH SAFERM 1 "30 Mar 1998" |
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| 18 | .SH NAME |
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| 19 | saferm \- remove files without race conditions |
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| 20 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 21 | .B saferm |
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| 22 | [ |
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| 23 | .B \-q |
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| 24 | ] [ |
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| 25 | .B \-d |
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| 26 | | |
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| 27 | .B \-z |
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| 28 | ] |
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| 29 | .B filename |
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| 30 | [ |
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| 31 | .B filename ... |
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| 32 | ] |
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| 33 | .fi |
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| 34 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 35 | .I saferm |
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| 36 | is a file removal program which can be used running as root to safely |
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| 37 | remove and optionally zero files or directories from world-writable |
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| 38 | directories, such as /tmp. It will refuse to change directories |
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| 39 | through symbolic links, and it will not zero files that have more than |
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| 40 | one hard link. Files are zeroed only when the |
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| 41 | .B \-z |
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| 42 | option is specified. If a directory is being removed, the |
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| 43 | .B \-d |
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| 44 | flag must be specified. The |
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| 45 | .B \-q |
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| 46 | flag suppresses the error message for the case when a directory |
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| 47 | cannot be removed because it is not empty. |
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| 48 | |
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| 49 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 50 | Craig Fields, MIT Information Systems |
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| 51 | .br |
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| 52 | Copyright (c) 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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