in reply to Open Error

The semicolon after select statement is missing.

Perl reads

select BEDROCK if (! open BEDROCK, ">>/home/barney/.error_log") ... Oops.

update

HINT: using an editor doing auto-indentation would have shown it.

Cheers Rolf
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