I have a program which reads values from a database which are placed into a unique file in /tmp. The file name is echoed from the program when it is created. My perl script is attempting to grab the output from that command by redirecting STDOUT to a file that I can read later ( I need to read the file and process each line for FTP purposes - this code already works). When I execute this portion of code, it never prints out the "foo1". Am I losing STDOUT ..or is the code flaking out on me? 
#!/usr/bin/perl


# just make up a fake file here to create
# and echo the filename of /tmp/foo
$tabfile = "./tabfile";
$logfile = "/tmp/foo";

# send output to file
@args2 = ("$tabfile");
open (STDOUT, ">$logfile") || die "could not open log\n";
unless (system(@args2) == 0) {
       print STDERR "system(@args2) failed: $? $!\n";
       return;
}
close(STDOUT);

print "foo1\n";

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In reply to Help: STDOUT flaking out? by P0w3rK!d

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