[ale] Writing to file in PERL

[terry at bitlinx.com (Terry Bailey)]

Hi,

I cannot get PERL to write to a file.  The file, named input, is set 
at 777 and I think the syntax in the script is correct.  Does PERL 
require other permissions? I am runing centOS 5.4.  The code is:

open (INPIPE, '>/opt/input');

print INPIPE "$data";

close (INPIPE);

Thank you in advance for your help.

Terry