When you tried to rename it using unlink/rename was the original file actualy unlinked after your script ran ? Are you sure this bit of code it actualy being called ? Perhaps you can add some print statements to see that the code is getting to the rename. Is the new .ini-new actualy being updated ? Can you run the following test ok ?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Copy;

my $new="mytest";
open NEW, ">$new" or die "I can not open file to write: $!\n";

print NEW "this is a test";

close NEW;

copy ("$new", "$new.new") or die "can't make a copy: $!\n";

unlink $new or die "can not unlink it: $!\n";

rename ("$new.new", "$new") or die "cant move it: $!\n";

unlink $new or die "can not unlink it at the end: $!\n";
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Cheers,
R.

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