Just a note on error handling:

Maybe it's because I've been writing way too much Java lately, but I've gotten used to making my error messages verbose, at least in the development and testing phases. The first thing I thought when I read 

error creating \\NTSERVER\TempLogs\020910145659! at testWL.pl line 28.

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was "Great, but what was the error?" I heartily recommend outputting $! along with your tailor-made error messages, especially when making system calls: 
system(@args) == 0 or die "error creating $createDir :\n$!";

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This will tend to send whatever error the system call farted out into the error Perl dies with.


LAI
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In reply to Re: Moving Log files remotely by LAI
in thread Moving Log files remotely by Anonymous Monk

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