tachyon, that is fine and dandy and I appreciate the code :) but I am more into figuring out why the problem exists, therefore I can better appreciate the solution to the problem. 
dir_search(*D,"$path$cont");

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this seems to be where all the trouble lies, everything previous to this line works as expected. Actually the whole script runs without errors under perl -c it just doesn't do the recursion that I was expecting. To clarify what I'm asking: I want to know why my code doesn't work :) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
##
use strict;
my $Spath='/home/s0ttlen/';

opendir(H, "$Spath")|| die "Error:$!\n";
dir_search(*H,"$Spath");

sub dir_search{
     local(*ROOT)=$_[0];
     my $path=$_[1];
     my $cont;
     foreach $cont (sort readdir(ROOT)){
        next if $cont eq '.' or $cont eq '..';
        next if -l "$path$cont";
        if (-f "$path$cont"){
           &log("$path$cont") if (-T "$path$cont" || -u "$path$cont");
        }
        elsif (-d "$path$cont" && opendir(D,"$path$cont")) {
           dir_search(*D,"$path$cont");
        } 
     }
}

sub log{
     my $file=$_[0];
     my $log='/home/s0ttlen/log/slog';
     open(LOG,">>$log")|| die "Error:$!\n";
     print LOG "$file\n";
}

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