It partly depends on your operating system, I think. That's fine on Windows, but on UNIX I think that under some if not all circumstances your change will persist after the script finishes executing. I've never had to do it, but I've seen one method that goes like this:
open(OLD_STDERR,">&STDERR") or die "Failed to save STDERR"; open(STDERR,">script.err") or die "Failed to redirect STDERR"; do something... open(STDERR,">&OLD_STDERR") or die "Failed to restore STDERR"; -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Frantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 12:10 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Redirecting STDERR Perlers, I have a script where I redirect STDERR to a file so that I can capture 'die' messages like so: use warnings; use strict; my $logfile = "/some/path/logfile.txt"; open STDERR, ">>$logfile"; something or die "Unable to do something()\n"; close STDERR; Is it kosher to do this? Or is there a more preferred method to redirect 'die' messages? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
