script: 
open (LOG, ">> $file");
$_ = $msg;
print LOG "$_ :: $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}\n"; 
print "\$_ is $_";
close (LOG);

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Before setting $_ to hold my $msg the $msg was not getting sent to the log file. All that was sending was the IP address. Someone mentioned in the CB that this was because the variable $msg was not directly from the server (or something like that). The script runs now but I was wondering if anyone could explain why I couldn't just use this instead? 
open (LOG, ">> $file");
print LOG "$msg :: $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}\n"; 
print "\$msg is $msg";
close (LOG);

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In reply to Sending variables to a log file by sulfericacid

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