Hello again prestigious monks. I am stuck and I hope you can help. I have a simple perl module that I use to write logging info into a text file. I call this module from scripts that run as daemons along the way to log useful tidbits of info. I am stuck on this error though. Its like my subroutine in the main script doesn't see the sub exported by loading the module. As soon as the sub routing dbConnect tries to run the dbug() it bombs. Any insight is appreciated.

# ./path.pl
Undefined subroutine &dbug::dbug called at ./path.pl line 56.
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Here is the main script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use lib qw(../lib/);
use warnings;
use strict;
use Proc::Daemon;
use Proc::PID::File;
use File::Copy;
use DBI;
use XML::Simple;
use POSIX;
use dbug qw(dbug);

my $path = "/opt/homeforscript";
my $hopper = "$path/hopper";
my $deliveryDir = "$path/hopper2";
my $log = "/var/log/script.log";
my $timestamp = POSIX::strftime("%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S", localtime);
my $dbh;

defined(my $pid = fork) or die "Cannot fork: $!\n";
  exit if $pid;
  $dbh = dbConnect() or exit -1;
  dbug("Fork", "[$$ DB] Connected\n");


open (LOG, '>>', $log) or die("Cannot open Log");
print LOG "Log Opened\n";

for (;;) {
        #Open the hopper
        opendir (HOPPER, $hopper) or die $!;

        # And look for Files
        checkHopper();
        sleep 1;
}

############################
# Sub's                                           #
############################

sub dbConnect {
        #print LOG "$timestamp - [Trying to Connect to DB]\n";
        dbug("DB", "DBI CONNECTED");
        print LOG "$timestamp - [DBI CONNECTED]\n";
        eval {
                $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:DBNAM','DBUSER','DBPASS
+WD')or print LOG "Connection Error: $DBI::errstr\n";
             };
        return $dbh;
}

sub checkHopper {
#Read a list of files in hopper
if (is_folder_empty($hopper)) {

} else {

        while (defined(my $file = readdir(HOPPER))) {
                #open (LOG, '>>', $log) or die("Cannot open Log");
                if ($file !~ /^\./) {
                        dbug("INCOMMING", "Found file named $file in i
+ncomming hopper\n");
                        #print  LOG "$timestamp - Found file named $fi
+le in incomming hopper\n";
                        move("$hopper/$file", "$deliveryDir/$file") or
+ print LOG "cannot move $hopper/$file to $deliveryDir/$file\n";
                        dbug("PROCESSING", "Moved $file from hopper fo
+r processing \n");
                        #print LOG "$timestamp - Moved $file from hopp
+er for processing \n";
                        my $sql = "select * from transfers";
                        my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
                        $sth->execute or die dbug("DB", "SQL Error: $D
+BI::errstr\n");
                        dbug("DB", "Queried the Database\n");
                                if (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
                                        dbug("QUERY", "@row\n");
                                }
                }
        }
    }
}
sub is_folder_empty {
    my $dirname = shift;
    opendir(my $dh, $dirname) or die "Not a directory";
    return scalar(grep { $_ ne "." && $_ ne ".." } readdir($dh)) == 0;
}
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And here is the module:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# $Id: dbug.pm $

package dbug;
require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT_OK = qw(dbug);

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;

my $timestamp = POSIX::strftime("%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S", localtime);

sub pdebug {
        my $logDate = POSIX::strftime('%y%m%d', localtime(time));
        my $component = shift;
        my $string = shift;
        my $logto = "/var/log/logfile.log.$logDate";
        open (LOGGER, '>>', $logto) or die("Cannot open Log");
        print LOGGER "$timestamp - [$component] $string";
        close(LOGGER);
}
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