I have a tcp server in perl (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) which use this subroutine to log in a file. sub logger { return if ($LOGFILE eq "") ; my ($idt, $str) = @_ ; unless( defined($str) ) { $str = $idt ; $idt = '' ; } my ($s,$m,$h,$J,$M,$A) = localtime(time()) ; if(!open(OUT,">>$LOGFILE")) { warn "logger:error open [$LOGFILE]:[$!]\n"; return; } if (!printf OUT "%4.4d/%2.2d/%2.2d %2.2d:%2.2d:%2.2d %s %s -> %s\n", $A+1900, $M+1, $J, $h, $m, $s, $idt, $HOSTNAME, $str) { warn "logger:error print [$LOGFILE]:[$!]\n"; return; } if (!close(OUT)) { warn "logger:error close [$LOGFILE]:[$!]\n"; return; } } So there is simultaneous writing in this log file. Exceptionally , I have this error in STDERR: printf() on closed filehandle logger :error print [/my/path/logFile.LOG]:[Bad File Descriptor] without any error on open! How can I resolve this problem? Thanks for your help!!!Thread Next