As a matter of technique, you should always start your scripts with: 
use strict;
use warnings;

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Doing that would have picked up that: 
my $currentlog = "/perl/ass/@logfiles[$hour]";

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is better written as: 
my $currentlog = "/perl/ass/$logfiles[$hour]";

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Though, admittedly, that won't solve your current problem.

To solve your current problem, I suggest you download and install the sysinternals (now Microsoft) Handle utility which will allow you to see all processes on the system which have this file open.

In reply to Re: Perl Permissions by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Perl Permissions by blundell

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