Ooops. I was "fixing" the wrong routine in #12947 and #12950.

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlfaq1.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod
index e9ac168..e9b1ef7 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ distribution for more details.  See L<perlhist> (new as of 5.005)
 for Perl's milestone releases.
 
 In particular, the core development team (known as the Perl Porters)
-are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed
-to producing better software for free than you could hope to
-purchase for money.  You may snoop on pending developments via
-nntp://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ and the Deja archive at
-http://www.deja.com/ using the perl.porters-gw newsgroup, or you can
-subscribe to the mailing list by sending perl5-porters-request@perl.org
-a subscription request.
+are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to
+producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for
+money.  You may snoop on pending developments via
+nntp://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/
+or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending
+perl5-porters-request@perl.org a subscription request
+(an empty message with no subject is fine).
 
 While the GNU project includes Perl in its distributions, there's no
 such thing as "GNU Perl".  Perl is not produced nor maintained by the
@@ -252,12 +252,12 @@ programmers prefer to avoid them altogether.
 These are the "just another perl hacker" signatures that some people
 sign their postings with.  Randal Schwartz made these famous.  About
 100 of the earlier ones are available from
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/japh .
+http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh .
 
 =head2 Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
 
 Over a hundred quips by Larry, from postings of his or source code,
-can be found at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .
+can be found at http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .
 
 =head2 How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version 5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
 
@@ -306,16 +306,18 @@ In August 2000 in all Linux distributions a new security problem was
 found in the optional 'suidperl' (not built or installed by default)
 in all the Perl branches 5.6, 5.005, and 5.004, see
 http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/sperl-2000-08-05/
+Perl maintenance releases 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 have this security hole closed.
+Most, if not all, Linux distribution have patches for this
+vulnerability available, see http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/ ,
+but the most recommendable way is to upgrade to at least Perl 5.6.1.
 
 =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
 
 Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan
 Torkington.  All rights reserved.
 
-When included as an integrated part of the Standard Distribution
-of Perl or of its documentation (printed or otherwise), this works is
-covered under Perl's Artistic Licence.  For separate distributions of
-all or part of this FAQ outside of that, see L<perlfaq>.
+This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the same terms as Perl itself.
 
 Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples here are in the public
 domain.  You are permitted and encouraged to use this code and any