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safe-rm 0.4 (Default branch)

safe-rm is intended to prevent the accidentaldeletion of importantfiles by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper whichchecks the givenarguments against a configurable blacklist offiles and directoriesthat should never be removed. Users who attempt todelete one of theseprotected files or directories will not be able todo so and will beshown a warning message instead. Protected pathscan be set both at thesite and user levels.License: GNU General Public License v3Changes:
The main change in this release is a fix for a bug that was preventing the root directory from being added to the list of protected paths. Safe-rm is now able to protect you from the infamous "rm -rf /".

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gdm-restart

gdm-restart(1m)                                                    User Commands                                                   gdm-restart(1m)

NAME

       gdm-restart, gdm-safe-restart, gdm-stop - stop or restart GDM

SYNOPSIS

       gdm-restart

       gdm-safe-restart

       gdm-stop

DESCRIPTION

       gdm-restart stops and restarts GDM by sending a HUP signal to the GDM daemon. This command immediately terminates all sessions and logs out
       users currently logged in with GDM.

       gdm-safe-restart stops and restarts GDM by sending a USR1 signal to the GDM daemon. GDM is restarted as soon as all users log out.

       gdm-stop stops GDM by sending a TERM signal to the GDM daemon.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gdm-restart    Executable to stop and restart GDM

       /usr/bin/gdm-safe-restarExecutable to stop and restart GDM safely

       /usr/bin/stop           Executable to stop GDM

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWgnome-display-mgr        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability          |External                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gdm(1), gdmXnestchooser(1), gdmflexiserver(1), gdmphotosetup(1), gdmsetup(1), gdmthemetester(1), gdmconfig(1m)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10                                                          1 Sep 2004                                                     gdm-restart(1m)