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Message: [QUOTE="terry l. ridder, post: 4781823"] on my computers they end up in /var/log/messages that depends on /etc/syslog.conf under perl 5.6 syslog returned the number of bytes written to the log. i thought that it may be a quirk in perl 5.6 so i fired up an old computer that has perl 5.6 installed and tired the code snippet you provided. it worked. the tests ended up in /var/log/messages. Jan 25 12:18:22 strauss audit: this is a test Jan 25 12:18:33 strauss audit: this is also a test. Jan 25 12:18:40 strauss audit: this is a 3rd test. at this point i fall back to my original guess: 0. the msgs are being logged but not where you think/want them logged. [/QUOTE]