On Thu, 8 May 2003, Spencer Butler wrote: > IPCop doesn't come with any devel tools. If you read their docs I > believe you will see what I mean. You get perl and that is about as > close as you get. You may want to holler at the ipcop-devel list to get > more info. > > It is a security 'feature'. > As security features go it is a pretty good one. I'd like to see perl gone also. For a production firewall you want nothing that makes it any easier for an intruder to install software on the computer than necessary. Of course, this means that you have to do all of your binary production on a compatible dev system, but that is as it should be. -- Daniel Taylor dante at argle.org Forget diamonds, Copyright is forever. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list