[Chicago-talk] writing a log with Cron, Daemons, Perl

[Jay Strauss]

Steve,

Why do you do the -t test?  And which file is it testing that it's opened to
a tty?

Jay
> unless( -t )
> {
>     use Basename;
>
>     my $base = (fileparse $0, '\..*')[0];
>     open STDOUT, '>', "$logdir/$base.out";
>     open STDERR, '>', "$logdir/$base.err";
>
>     select STDERR;
>     $| = 1;
>
>     select STDOUT;
> }
>
>
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