[ale] perl and environment stuff

[James P. Kinney III]

This is strange:

I have a perl script that does many things. One section is failing to
perform as intended when the user running it is logged into something
other than the console.

The failing section is _supposed_ to append about 10 lines of text to a
file that already exists. From a console user, it works as designed.
>From a user ssh'ed into the box, the appen does not work. It overwrites
the existing file. 


?!?!WTF?!?!?


The open command looks like:

open (FILEOUT, ">>$filetowrite") || die "Crud! $filetowrite puked $!\n";
print FILEOUT "$stuff\n";
close FILEOUT;

And $filetowrite is defined earlier and exists on the system (It's
the /etc/cups/printers.conf file for the morbidly curious)

The only thing I can think is that the remote users are getting a
different environment that drops the ">>" for a ">". But it's all bash
login shells. 

Suggestions on where to look?

I can write a workaround but now I'm just bugged about the why part :)
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