close STDOUT;  #close the original STDOUT tee to file
open (STDOUT, ">/dev/tty"); #open STDOUT back to just the terminal
system("$y", "$u");
#my $rhup = `"$y" "$u"`;
my $err = $?>> 8;

open (STDOUT, "|tee -ai /var/tmp/IQOQ.txt");  #Now re-tee STDOUT since we aren't done