I'm writing a small program that's run by cron, and want to redirect it's STDERR to my log file. I'm trying this: 
open MY_LOG, ">> /var/log/mylog.log" or die "Gah! $!";
open STDERR, ">&MY_LOG" or die "Couldn't redirect. $!";

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and it seems to work.

I've also seen this funny notation that seems to do the same thing: 

*STDERR = *MY_LOG;

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What's that star-filehandle notation mean? Is it really doing the same thing as open STDERR, ">&MY_LOG"?

Finally, how to do I do $| = 1 on MY_LOG, so the STDERR messages and the messages printed to MY_LOG end up in the right order in the log file?

In reply to redirect STDERR to my log file, also funny *FOO notation. by JohnMG

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