Re^2: Can't get flock() to work. Please help...

[alain_desilets]

Cool! I have been using strict for years, but had never heard of warnings. I'll add that to my standard boilerplate code for Perl scripts. -- Alain

[GrandFather]

Then change you file open boilerplate to:

open my $fileIn, '<', $filename or die "Can't open $filename: $!";

which uses the three argument form of open (you werre already actually, but just making it explicit), uses lexical file handles (with strict that would have caught your typo too) and reports open errors.