It's called the learning process. Some people like to learn how things can be done without the use of prepackaged utilities. Oh yeah.. that's right, you're "Randal Schwartz", you already "KNOW IT ALL". Why don't you use your superior Perl knowledge for something more productive than flaming Perl newbies for their code.

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Update: I withdraw the above statement as I jumped to post while the emotions were running high, but I totally diagree with the warez scriptkiddie statement. This tool can be used by Administrators to track services on a client Once again, this tool was written to track services on a client.