Hey,

I don't know if this is one of the best solutions, but I did it once like this:

open(LOG_FILE,">$log_file") || die "Unable to open $log_file: $!\n";
my $old_err = *STDERR;
my $old_out = *STDOUT;
# Redirecting STDERR and STDOUT to the log file handle
*STDERR = \*LOG_FILE;
*STDOUT = \*LOG_FILE;
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and all standard print messages go to the log file, as well as all the error messages... yes, even the error messages of executed commands ;-)