Frank- I think he believes it's more of a security issue then anything else. We only have three os's here. Solaris x86, Solaris sparc, and linux. So I don't think it's a port issue.
--chad On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 15:49, Frank Wiles wrote: > .------[ chad kellerman wrote (2002/09/20 at 15:32:11) ]------ > | > | I tried doing the same thing but my supervisor got mad. We aren't > | allowed to use any type of system call in our scripts. If the system > | call is in a perl module it's one thing but not in our code. > | > | system or exec anything that executes from /bin/sh > | > | even though it is so much nicer to do that, especially using find.. > | > `------------------------------------------------- > > Does he have a sound reason for this or is he just thinking it > somehow makes your program more secure or more easily ported, etc? > > --------------------------------- > Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://frank.wiles.org > --------------------------------- > -- Chad Kellerman Jr. Systems Administrator Alabanza Inc 410-234-3305
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