On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:00:49AM -0500, Nichole Bialczyk wrote:
> i'm trying to write a log file and i can't seem to open it to write to. the file
>does exist. here is the code for opening the file:
>
> if(! open(LOG, ">xxx.txt)) {
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "Can't open xxx.txt\n";
> exit;
> }
> print LOG "At $date, $ENV{'REMOTE_HOST'} etc., etc.
I'd suggest putting $! in your output, to better figure out why you can't
open the file.
For example:
if (! open(LOG, ">xxx.txt")) {
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Can't open xxx.txt: \l$!.\n";
exit; # ^^^^
}
Michael
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