If I understand your problem correctly, then there's no need for the "delete and copy" dance.
Simply open your tempfile for output and it will automatically get created or truncated.
You already populated your @outagenodes from the data read from your serverlist. So why don't you simply: 
open(my $tempfh, ">", $tempfile) or die "couldn't open $tempfile: $!";
print$tempfh @outagenodes or die "error when writing: $!";
close $tempfh or die "huh?? - $!";

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BTW I deliberately leave off the space in print$filehandle to remind myself that there's no comma between the file handle and the list...

In reply to Re^5: Subroutine to delete one file and copy one file to another by soonix
in thread Subroutine to delete one file and copy one file to another by shroh

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