I'm having a problem getting a script to work when it's run in cron. I've tried everything I could think of and still no results. The script is one I got from a post by tilly. The script cleans up old files in the specified dir. When it's scheduled in cron, nothing happens, the script must run because I get no errors, but no files are deleted.
$logdir = "/whatdir/";

opendir(LOGDIR, $logdir) or die "Can't open $logdir: $!";

foreach $file (grep {-f && (-M > 5)} readdir(LOGDIR)) {
  unlink $logdir . $file;  
}
closedir(LOGDIR);

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This works when run from the command line. I've looked at file permissions, and directory permissions, and paths, and everthing is correct. Help, Please! It's got me stumped.
Thanks

In reply to Using Cron to Run Script by wileykt

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