Voytek Eymont wrote: > what do I need Perl on my server, apart from stuff I've added, like, > amavisd or popb4smtp ?? > > as far as I can tell, many/most/some of the infiltrations done through say > CMS vulnerabilities execute like 'perl sometext' > > if I was to rename perl to 'something_totally_different', and, edited > amavis/popb4smtp/whatever to use '#!something_totally_different' what's > the downside here, apart from preventing exploits of unpatched CMSs etc?? > >
A lot of stuff uses perl, often things you won't realise. I'd guess that if you try removing it, apt/yum/whatever will probably complain of dependencies. Install scripts might use perl, as well as system maintenance stuff (log rotation, etc). BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
