undo a rm -rf

[Joshua Oreman]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 05:45:20PM +0800 or thereabouts, Robert Storey seemed to write:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:36:46 -0700
> Joshua Oreman <oremanj at www.get-linux.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:15:50AM -0400 or thereabouts, David Loszewski
> > seemed to write:
> > > I just did a rm -rf and forgot the *.png portion
> > > that I wanted on it, lol, 2 years of using freebsd
> > > and I've never done anything this stupid.  Is there
> > > a way to get my data back? Please respond to this email address.
> 
> On Linux, I've installed Libtrash, a "trashcan" which works even at the console. I think it's just a series of scripts, but it works superbly. I tried installing it on FBSD, but it failed to compile, exiting with this error message:
> 
>   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
>   *** Error code 1
> 
> If I knew what I was doing, I'd surely try to port Libtrash to FBSD. Sadly, I'm not a knowledgeable developer, just a dumb user. If anyone is interested:
> 
>   http://www.m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash/

That's me, I'm interested (and a knowledgable quasi-developer :-)
To get it to compile, remove all occurences of -ldl from src/Makefile.
However, then it coredumps on any open() call and doesn't move stuff
to the trash :P
I'm working on it.

-- Josh

> 
> regards,
> Robert
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