[ic] perl question, sort of ot, but what the hell.

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:04:09 +0000
Tom Hodder <tom at ecnow.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> after I installed the unthreaded perl on my redhat 8.0 box (as a prereq to
> installing ic), perl opened port 1212.

Perl really wouldn't do that unless you instructed it to do so. 
Are you sure that 1212 is owned by Perl (netstat -anp) ?
I recommend to run chkrootkit on that box to check for hacks.

	Racke