[root@archaia /root]# su nobody [nobody@archaia /root]$ perl -e 'open (MAIL, ">./foo");print MAIL "scratchymonkey.\n" ;' [nobody@archaia /root]$ exit [root@archaia /root]# ls bin mod_perl_docs [root@archaia /root]# #### [nobody@archaia /root]$ perl -we 'open (MAIL, ">./foo");print MAIL "scratchymonkey.\n ";' print on closed filehandle main::MAIL at -e line 1. #### [nobody@archaia /root]$ perl -we 'open (MAIL, ">./foo") || die "$!";print MAIL "scrat chymonkey.\n";' Permission denied at -e line 1.