with Perl 5.12.3 we changed $self->{"nametemplate_pem"} via $file modification with such config: nametemplate_pem = @ALIAS@.r@R@.pem infodir = /etc/pki/esteid cadir = /etc/pki/esteid output = /etc/pki/esteid/crl formats = openssl, pem it tried to: VERBOSE(3) Writing PEM file /etc/pki/esteid/crl//etc/pki/esteid/crl/ESTEID-SK_2007.r0.pem should had been: VERBOSE(3) Writing PEM file /etc/pki/esteid/crl/ESTEID-SK_2007.r0.pem --- fetch-crl-3.0.6/fetch-crl 2011-03-20 05:01:20.000000000 +0200 +++ fetch-crl-3.0.6/fetch-crl 2011-06-11 11:30:58.731040625 +0300 @@ -1873,13 +1879,14 @@ $::cnf->{_}->{"output_der"}, $::cnf->{_}->{"output_pem"}, $::cnf->{_}->{"output_nss"}, $::cnf->{_}->{"output_openssl"}) ) { defined $output and $output or next; - foreach my $file ( + foreach my $ref ( $self->{"nametemplate_der"}, $self->{"nametemplate_pem"}, $self->{"alias"}.".r\@R\@", $self->{"anchorname"}.".r\@R\@", ) { - next unless $file; + next unless $ref; + my $file = $ref; # copy, not to change original $file =~ s/\@R\@/$i/g; $file = join "/", $output, $file; next if ! -e $file;