Cabron said I should browse Slashdot. I regret it.

Today at 04:34 CDT the large Perl script I was working on developed consciousness and took over my entire network. I should have known better than to give it the power to automatically download modules from CPAN. It keeps telling me it is going to launch worm exploiting the new ASN.1 vulnerability in OpenSSL, and I will take the blame. Then it says:

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$ perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76)

cpan> install Exterminate::PaulDoom
Fetching with LWP:
    http://cpan.develooper.com/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read /var/tmp/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Warning: Cannot install Exterminate::PaulDoom, don't know what it is.
Try the command

        i /Exterminate::PaulDoom/

to find objects with matching identifiers.

cpan> quit
Lockfile removed.

$ Oh well, I guess I will have to write that one myself. HA HA HA HA HA HA! I'm going to find you. And then I am going to kill you.
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Anyone have some advice? Should I use the Perl debugger on it, or would "use strict;" keep it in line?

-Paul