I'm trying to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to dev null in a mod_perl handler using the following code:

    open(STDOUT, ">/dev/null") or
      $log->die("Unable to redirect STDOUT to dev null: $!");
    open(STDERR, ">/dev/null") or
      $log->die("Unable to redirect STDERR to dev null: $!");

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I'm obviously doing something boneheaded, because this gives me the following error:

[Mon Nov 27 16:54:52 2006] [error] [client 192.168.0.115] Can't locate object method "OPEN" via package "Apache::RequestRec" at ..

I'm confused .. I thought open was available everywhere .. you know, like a CORE function? I did a chdir a little before the open, and mod_perl didn't complain about that.

Thanks ..

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to mod_perl seems to have disappeared the open function by talexb

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