Strange question, but when I run my little Solaris Ping -s output muncher, if I try to redirect stdout a la '> filename' the file doesn't get anything in it. The script runs fine to the screen. Here are the two command lines:

ping -s 192.168.1.1 | pinglog.pl

Works fine - output as expected...

ping -s 192.168.1.1 | pinglog.pl > pinglog.out

pinglog.out remains empty...what is going on??
Here is the script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $newnum = 0;

while (<>) {
    next if $_ =~ /data bytes/;
    my ($a, $b) = split (/:/, $_);
    chomp $b;
    my ($seq, $seqnum, $lat, $latsec) = split '=', $b;
    $seqnum =~ s/\s+//;
    $seqnum =~ s/.time//;
    # for debug...
    # print "seq: $seqnum\texpected: $newnum\n";
    unless ($seqnum == $newnum ) {
        print "Ping failed at " . localtime(time - ($seqnum - $newnum)
+) . "\t";
        print "restored at " . localtime() . "\t";
        print "Total Time (s) = " . ($seqnum - $newnum) . "\n";
    }

    $newnum = $seqnum + 1;
}

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Any ideas?? Thanks ahead of time!

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