[174674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Wed Sep 24 21:28:06 2014
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From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:27:39 -0500
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
> Has anybody looked to see if the popular web software the users install
> and don't maintain (e.g. Wordpress, phpBB, Joomla, Drupal) use system()
Wouldn't it be great if it was JUST system()? It's also popen(),
shell_exec(), passhru(), exec(), backtic operator.
I am pretty sure ALL of them use at least 1 of these in various places
out of the box, and many plugins use these as well, such that a
shell could be invoked, but popen() on $sendmail is particularly
common.
> or the like to call out to external programs? What about service
> provider type stuff like RT? I know Nagios calls out to shell scripts
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-JH
