zuluwarhelmet,

Everyone else has nailed it -- permission issue (probably.) Just thought I could throw one more idea at you:

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Temp qw/ tempfile tempdir /;

my $dir = tempdir();
my ($fh, $filename) = tempfile( DIR => $dir );

print "Temporary file '$filename' created.\n";
print $fh "Stuff you want in the file.\n";
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That will pretty much guarantee the creation of the file. It creates a unique subfolder inside of the $temp directory and creates a unique filename to write to. This is useful with webapps because each subsequent request won't clobber the previous file.

Kurt