After some troubleshooting, I did something dumb. At one point when was testing this I managed to overwrite the perl script with the log information. No clue how, but it works fine now. Thanks to everyone for the help.

If you give tee filename it will gladly stuff it with stuff , study the previously linked gnu tee examples

$ echo echo |tee 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
echo

$ cat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo
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