On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:01:03PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > 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.) >
But you are a registered BOFH. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
