in reply to Re: redirect STDERR to my log file, also funny *FOO notation.
in thread redirect STDERR to my log file, also funny *FOO notation.

Why not just 
open STDERR, '>> /var/log/mylog.log'

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instead of 
open local(*STDERR), '>> /var/log/mylog.log'

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?

Wait a sec... why did you sneak that $/ in (input record separator) at the end of the call to die()?

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