> I have tried explicitly labelling the stdout filehandler to redirect
> to the filename but this doesnt work either.
Try replacing
/home/pauld/stats/wwwstat.pl /path_to_log_file/access_log>
withQuote:>/path_to_stats_output_page/stats`date '+%j%H%M'`.html
/home/pauld/stats/wwwstat.pl /path_to_log_file/access_log
1>/path_to_stats_output_page/stats`date '+%j%H%M'`.html 2>&1
The ordering of the redirections is important.
Cheers
Toby