Re: Sending STDERR to a filehandle

[ozone]

change:

$pid = open(ERROR, "$cmd 2>&1 1>/dev/null |");

to

$pid = open(ERROR, "$cmd 1>/dev/null 2>&1 |");

I know that in Unix, putting them the wrong way around causes the same symptoms you are talking about.

[bobn]

Actually, you're the one that has it backwards. Although most things hapopen letf-to-right, I've always found tht redirections happen right to left. Hence, you've arranged for STDOUT and STDERR both to go to /dev/null.

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com