You might have better luck trying to close or permanently redirect all filehandles. It may even be that you need to close ALL filehandles which you might have open. Maybe in the intervening time since the script was working, and not, you added some code elsewhere which opened some filehandles? See how to close all files 
close(STDOUT);close(STDIN);close(STDERR);

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or even 
open STDIN, "</dev/null";
open STDOUT, ">/dev/null";
open( STDERR, ">>/path/to/logfile");

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In reply to Re^3: fork question by zentara
in thread fork question by jonnyfolk

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