i am trying to call another script from within a script, which opens up an outlook email if a file is empty,This all works fine. i have tested it in other scripts.

  unless ( -z "$Temp" ) {
   print "File has something in it\n";
   exec "c://testscripts//email.pl" or die "problem with email.pl";

}
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But it will not work in this script, i get no warnings.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use POSIX 'mktime';
use POSIX 'strftime';
my @now = localtime();

my $todaysday = strftime("%d" , localtime());
my $thismonth = strftime("%b" , localtime());
my $year = strftime("%Y" , localtime());
my $SERVICEDESK="servicedesk";
my  $CLIENTFILE = strftime("%Y_backup_report.csv" , localtime());
my $Temp = strftime("C:\\temp\\Unknown_servers%d%b.txt" , localtime())
+;

my $already_there = 0;

open my $mon, '<', "c:\\DBR_$year\\$thismonth\\Monthly_backup_report\\
+$thismonth$CLIENTFILE" or die "read file $!\n";

while ( defined ( my $line = <$mon> ) ) {
    my ( $date ) = split ',', $line;

    if ( $date eq "$todaysday $thismonth $year" ) {
        print "\ file has already been updated today";
        $already_there++;
        last;
    }
}
close $mon;

if ( ! $already_there ) {
    open my $day, "c:\\DBR_$year\\$thismonth\\Failures_output\\$todays
+day$thismonth$SERVICEDESK.csv"  or die " 22read file $!\n";
    open $mon, '>>', "c:\\DBR_$year\\$thismonth\\Monthly_backup_report
+\\$thismonth$CLIENTFILE"  or die "33 write to file $!\n";
 
    <$day>; # get past header
    while ( <$day> ) {
        print { $mon } $_;
        print "                       $thismonth$CLIENTFILE\n";
print "             Has also been updated with today's failures      \
+n";
print "         Please update the Resolutions when they are received  
+    \n\n";
print "     **********************************************************
+***\n";
    }
    close $day or die "Could not complete writing to monthly file: $!\
+n";
    close $mon or die "Could not complete writing to monthly file: $!\
+n";
}
exit $already_there;
### call email perl ####################
  unless ( -z "$Temp" ) {
   print "File has something in it\n";
   exec "c://testscripts//email.pl" or die "problem with email.pl";

}

#########################################
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