Well, its the usual case of 'this script isnt working and im sure its some silly little error that i just cant notice cause i wrote the script, so i need someone else to look at it and see if they notice anything' type of problem. the script is supposed to be run in a cron job to check the directory one step above itself, see if there are any newly uploaded files, and if so, email someone and alert them. thanks in advance, and sorry to take up yer time :) 
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Upload Alert Script

opendir(DIR,'../');
@dir = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

$files = 0;

foreach $i (0..$#dir) {
    if( ($dir[$i] ne "index.html") && ($dir[$i] ne ".")
    && ($dir[$i] ne "..") && ($dir[$i] ne "cgi-bin") ) {$files = 1}
}

if($files == 1) {
    open(MAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
    print MAIL <<"EOC";
To: admin\@thiswebsite.com
From: notify\@thiswebsite.com
Reply-to: admin\@thiswebsite.com
Subject: !!! Newly Uploaded Files !!!

New files uploaded.
.
EOC
    close(MAIL);
}

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In reply to STUPID STUPID STUPID old me. by Anonymous Monk

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