forget security i not did. Did you read my comment? i said it would depend on circumstance. Feel free to enlighten me on the security reisk in the following...

Let's say I'm using this to name a log file created from a cron job once a day? What's the security hole?

Let's say i use it to name a backup tar file?

Let's say i have a box that only has SSH entry. Don't you think if a hacker got into that I'd be a little more worried about the fact that the'd got in than the fact that they can change a filename?

Everything has a security hole if you someone gets in as root, but sometimes it just doesn't matter. When i write a script on my Windows box that runs once a day to backup stuff, do i worry about security? No, because if someone's on my box and can change my data, security of that script is a mute issue.

Not everything in Perl's on a web server.

Or to continue in the quote vein, "Even a monkey can read Nietche, he just doesn't understand it either." - Jamie Lee Curtis in a Fish Called Wanda.

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cLive ;-)

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