-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-12719 2012-08-25 23:45:18 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : nwipe Product : Fedora 17 Version : 0.10 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://nwipe.sourceforge.net Summary : Securely erase disks using a variety of recognized methods Description : The nwipe is a command that will securely erase disks using a variety of recognized methods. It is a fork of the dwipe command used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (dban). Nwipe was created out of need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN. This allows it to use any host distribution which gives better hardware support. It is essentially the same as dwipe, with a few changes: - pthreads is used instead of fork - The parted library is used to detect drives - The code is designed to be compiled with gcc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: bugfix - eating 100% cpu when terminal is lost. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Aug 10 2012 Michal Ambroz <rebus at, seznam.cz> 0.10-1 - upgrade to version 0.10 * Fri Jul 20 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <[email protected]> - 0.08-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #836957 - nwipe not getting killed and increasing cpu usage to 99% https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836957 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update nwipe' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
