Actually, you wouldn't want to do that, as the logfile would be written over every time the cronjob ran. You'd probably want to do something liike this:

date >> logfile && perl -d (your script here) 2>&1 >> logfile

The >> will append to the logfile rather than overwrite it, and the 2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout, assuming you are running bash. I'm not sure of the syntax for tcsh/ksh/csh/etc, but i'm pretty sure that there will be more useful debugging info in stderr than in stdout.

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