What actually happens?

What did the error log say?

Code looks like it would do the job if the current directory is writable, but its probably cgi-bin so its not writeable by user "apache"

See CGI::Carp and CGI Help Guide, Troubleshooting Perl CGI scripts.. cgi101

Code could always use some polishing 

#!/usr/bin/perl -T --

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI ();
use CGI::Carp qw( fatalsToBrowser );


my $query = CGI->new;
my $id = $query->param( 'participant_id' );
$id =~ s/[^a-z0-9]//g; ## remove not word
$id = $1 if $id =~ m{([a-z0-9]+)}; ## untaint
$id or die "no valid id";

## "/usr/home/roshambo/csvlogs/participant_".
my $filename = "participant_".$id."_data.csv";

open my($outfh), '>>', $filename or die $!, "Couldn\'t open outfile fo
+r reading!\n";

print $outfh 'pause_time'."\t", $query->param('pause_time'), "\n";

$query->delete('pause_time', 'particpant_id');

for my $key ( $query->param ){
    print $outfh $key."\t",
            $query->param($key),
            "\n";
}
close $outfh;

print $query->header;
print "You are participant $id!";
exit( 0 );

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