A simple question really: I want to capture the STDERR from commands like croak and cluck into a log file that records all output of my program. I've read the previous comments in Perl Monks and I find the following in the Camel book: 
   use FileHandle;
   use Carp qw (cluck croak);

   my $LOG_FH = new FileHandle( "somefile", "w" );
   my $fileno = fileno $LOG_FH;
   open STDERR, ">&$fileno" or croak "Can't dup STDERR.";

   cluck "Testing the output of Carp commands.";

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(I need to use the $fileno because the ">&" dup operation doesn't work on I/O typeglobs.)

This works fine: all STDERR after this goes into $LOG_FH, but it no longer goes to the terminal.

But what I want is like the command "tee". I want STDERR to go to the terminal window, AND to be duplicated into the $LOG_FH filehandle.

Any clues??

Thanks, -Cadphile

In reply to duplicating STDERR to a logfile... by cadphile

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