The code you are using works on my PC (Win NT, Activestate perl 5.6.0).

If it isn't working, here are a couple of other ways to do the same thing. First use comand line redirects: perl myprog.pl >mylog.log 2>myerr.log You can also use select to redirect STDOUT to a file:

open (LOG, ">mylog.log") or die $!;
select (LOG);
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I hope some of this helps you.