Well first of all: 'no warnings "all";' this is not a good idea. I would "use warnings;". Might learn something useful from these warnings! Of course, print the variable $syslog_file before you use it - probably some big clue there as to why the open() doesn't work!

Update: Oh, I see that you do print $syslog_file. Look for leading/trailing white space characters in this. A newline or something like that might be causing the trouble.

Another update: Add $|=1; to the code. This turns off buffering to STDOUT. You may be actually reaching past the open(), but just can't see the message that this happened. Or alternatively, print to STDERR which is by default un-buffered.

In reply to Re: Perl won't Open() when called from Java by Marshall
in thread Perl won't Open() when called from Java by Anonymous Monk

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