my beloved hacker I did everything you said regarding:
open (COUNTING, ">/path/to/counter.txt") or die "Cannot open: $!\n";
print COUNTING $myvar;
 close COUNTING;

it did not help. This works perfectly on my computer, but it doesn't work on the server side. I am almost sure that the server administrator should set up something to allow I/O operations. He uses Apache server. What should we know to solve it?
regards, sOKOle