Hi Monks - I have a puzzle. I have several scripts in my collection, the main one is of course, main.cgi and it calls other scripts as needed using this format: 
@execute = ("gettersubscript.cgi", "$var1", "$var2");
system(@execute) == 0 or die "system @execute failed: $?";

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In my subscript, I have a very standard open the file, print a line to it, close it set of statements - but it will not work for the life of me! Here it is, plain vanilla: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
$file = "current.txt";
print "file to open is $file \n";
open (FILE, ">>$current") or die "Unable to access $file:$!\n";
print FILE "testline \n";
close FILE;

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I have copied and pasted this exact code from the subscript into it's own file, which ran perfectly. And I've 777'd the text file a million times, as well as the directory it's in to make sure there are no write problems. Has anyone encountered anything similar? The only thing I'm doing differently from usual is calling a subscript with the system command - should I use something else instead? Backticks?

In reply to File protection in a called script by TrinityInfinity

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