G'day LittleJack,

Put these lines near the start of your code: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

[download]

Use a lexical filehandle in a limited scope. The package variable LOG may be used elsewhere and could be interfering in some way. A subroutine would be a good choice; something like this untested code: 

sub _log_object {
    my ($obj) = @_;
    open my $log_fh, '>>', '/some/log/file.log';
    print $log_fh 'Some object: ', Dumper($obj);
    return;
}

[download]

This answers the "Where can I start looking ...?" question. It might fix your problem; if not, you may at least get a bit more feedback on problems. Report back with more information and further advice, not based on guesswork, may be forthcoming (follow the guidelines in "How do I post a question effectively?").

— Ken

In reply to Re: Why can't some of my modules do log output to a file? by kcott
in thread Why can't some of my modules do log output to a file? by LittleJack

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.