I have a piece of code 
#! /usr/local/bin/perl

use Oraperl;
use DBI;
use FileHandle;
use rf;
use IO::Socket;
use IO::Handle;;
use POSIX qw(setsid);

die "syntax: $0 port" if 1 > @ARGV;
$port=$ARGV[0];
open STDIN, '>/dev/null'   or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!";
print "Step 1\n";
open STDOUT, '>','/dev/null' or die "Can't write to $prout: $!";
print "Step 2\n";
open STDERR, '>/dev/null' or die "Can't write to $prerr: $!";
...

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This piece of code works fine on HP-UX with version:# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.3 built for IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi-LP64 But now that we are migrating to Linux (RedHat 6.6), the code fails on the command: open STDOUT, '>','/dev/null' or die "Can't write to $prout: $!"; putting this line into comment, then it works. Perl version on LINUX: perl -v This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi Any ideas what is causing this?

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