Both of the following examples of code work, however, being new to this kind of thing in Perl I am curious what those among the monks who know more than I do think.

The following is what I am currently using. The latter is what I changed . 

    if ( exists  $ARGS{'q'} ) {
        $CRON_MODE   = 1;
        sysopen(LOG,"$LOGDIR$LOGFILE", O_CREAT | O_APPEND | O_WRONLY) 
            or die("Unable to open logfile: $LOGDIR$LOGFILE\n");
        *STDOUT = \*LOG;
        print "Now running in cron/quiet mode to $LOGDIR$LOGFILE.\n";
    }

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And what I changed from: 
    if ( exists  $ARGS{'q'} ) {
        $CRON_MODE   = 1;
        close(STDOUT);
        sysopen(STDOUT,"$LOGDIR$LOGFILE", O_CREAT | O_APPEND | O_WRONL
+Y) 
            or die("Unable to open logfile: $LOGDIR$LOGFILE\n");
        print "Now running in cron/quiet mode to $LOGDIR$LOGFILE.\n";
    }

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Which of these ways is more preferred, if there is such a thing in this subject?

TIA

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- Jim
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In reply to Which is a better, more prudent way to redirecting STDOUT? by snafu

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