begin quoting Jon Wahlmann as of Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:52:30AM -0800: > > One reason would be that not all UN*Xs have perl installed by > > default, and some orgs don't let you install it just because > > it would be useful. > > Sed and awk are always there. So albeit a better tool, > > doesn't mean it is a tool you have. > > If you have shell access, install it in your home directory.
With no quotas, and with /home mounted exec (something that arguably shouldn't be done on production systems). If I said "no, we're not installing $tool" and the user did so anyway, not only would it be silently removed in the night, a cronjob would check for further breaches of policy. (And if you object to that and you aren't running telnetd and the r-services, you're a hypocrite.) -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
