News and announcements
Minor new release of safe-rm
Written for Safe-rm by François Marier on 2013-06-09
A new version of safe-rm was released to fix a problem reported by Teresa e Junior (http://
If you've ever seen the following error:
Insecure $ENV{IFS} while running with -t switch at /usr/bin/rm line 110. Insecure dependency in system while running with -t switch at /usr/bin/rm line 110.
then you should upgrade. Otherwise, you can keep the version you have.
/lib32 and /lib64 now blacklisted by default in safe-rm 0.9
Written for Safe-rm by François Marier on 2013-01-11
A new version of safe-rm was released to add the (relatively) new /lib32 and /lib64 directories to the default blacklist. Thanks to Michael Tomkins for the suggestion!
Contributing your list of protected paths to safe-rm
Written for Safe-rm by François Marier on 2010-04-14
This is an open invitation to all safe-rm users to send in their personal lists of protected paths so that some of these can hopefully be included in a future release.
safe-rm is all about preventing little disasters and part of this involves shipping a default set of paths to protect from deletion. I've tried to guess what would be useful to people, but it's very likely that I have a missed a number of critical paths that people care about.
So if you're happy with sharing your configuration, please consider emailing your /etc/safe-rm.conf or ~/.safe-rm to francois@
Removal of a perl dependency in 0.8
Written for Safe-rm by François Marier on 2009-10-15
The latest version of safe-rm removes an unnecessary dependency on the English Perl module. This makes safe-rm more robust during upgrades of the core Perl packages.
Thanks to all of those who have reported problems on the Debian bug tracker!
CDPATH-related fix in safe-rm 0.7
Written for Safe-rm by François Marier on 2009-09-23
Version 0.7 of safe-rm fixes a small untainting problem for people who have CDPATH defined in their environment. Others can safely skip this release and stick to version 0.6.
Thanks to John Ferlito, who inadvertently deleted part of his /usr/lib (http://
