All, I am Windows SysAdmin with Zero knowledge of Perl. It has fallen into my lap to fix a script that worked on Server 2003, that no longer works "properly" in 2008 R2.

This is ActivePerl 5.16.3 Build 1603 (64-bit).

The issue is where it attempt to modify a log file. Here is the output:

Tue Jul 23 09:46:43 2013 (1374598003): THREAD-0: ERROR: Cannot rotate log file C:\faa\logs to path C:\faa\logs\QA-ENC04A_flashEnc.20130723094643.log: error code=Permission denied Failed in opening log file C:\faa\logs - using STDERR

The path is correct, and the logged in user has permissions to the file system, so I am not sure why I am getting the error.

Here is the code from the sript: 

    # Rotate old log file.
    rotateLogFile();

    if ($configOptions{'logFilePath'}) {
        $LOG_FILE_PATH = $configOptions{'logFilePath'};
    }

    if (!isLocalLoggingEnabled() && !$DEBUGMODE) {
        print "NOTE: Local logging disabled in script configuration fi
+le\n";
    }

    # Make sure we can log to a log file, if necessary.
    if ($LOG_FILE_PATH) {
        my $logFileHandle = getLogFileHandle(1);
        closeLogFileHandle($logFileHandle);
    }

sub getLogFileHandle {

    my $logErrors = shift;

    # If no log file, use STDERR
    if (!$LOG_FILE_PATH) {
        return \*STDERR;
    }

    my $logFileHandle = IO::File->new(">>$LOG_FILE_PATH");

    if (!(defined $logFileHandle)) {
        $logFileHandle = \*STDERR;
        if ($logErrors) {
            print STDERR "Failed in opening log file $LOG_FILE_PATH - 
+using STDERR\n";
        }
    }

    autoflush $logFileHandle 1;

    return $logFileHandle;
}

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Any wisdom you can provide me with would be greatly appriciated.

In reply to WinAdmin needs help w/ File System STDERR and by ReturnOfTheYeti

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