To perl, or not to perl; that is the question. Literally.
A request has been made to install perl on the firewall. (It
would run some system audit routines, bring it in line with the
rest of the internal unix systems.) Given the choice, I'd rather
not. Why give the hackers yet another tool to use when they
break into the firewall? I wouldn't put a C compiler on the system
for the same reason. The argument for installing perl is that it's
much more "secure" than something like C, and no more insecure
than shell scripts.
I'd be most grateful for opinions, pro and con, from the list.
Cheers,
Lyn
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