i have an auction script that stores its individual datafiles in a few directories in a larger directory inside of the cgi-bin folder

file > file type folder > auction data > cgi-bin

i am now trying to create a perl script to use as a ssi include file on my non-perl index page, to tell how many items are currently for auction. i have created the following script, yet something is malfunctioning, and i cannot put my finger on the problem... please just take a look and see if you can find the problem. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use vars qw(%config %category);
use strict;

$config{'basepath'} = '/data/web/65682/auctiondata/';

%category = (
    snow => 'snow',
    skate => 'skate',
    surf => 'surf',
    misc => 'misc',

);


sub getnumber {
my $key;
  foreach $key (sort keys %category) {
          umask(000);  # UNIX file permission junk
          mkdir("$config{'basepath'}$key", 0777) unless (-d "$config{'
+basepath'}$key");
          opendir DIR, "$config{'basepath'}$key" or &oops("category di
+rectory $key could not be opened");
          my $numfiles = scalar(grep -T, map "$config{'basepath'}$key/
+$_", readdir DIR);
                my $totalfiles =+ $numfiles;
          closedir DIR;
  }
        print $totalfiles;
}

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lief

Edit Masem 2001-10-02 - Code tags and html-special-char edits

In reply to unix file permissions? or perhaps something that will make me look silly... by lief

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