Friends, I have a dab of perl that I use to dlt files older than 30 days from a given dir. I wish to enhance this so that a log of what was deleated -and when . I am unable to get the logging to work. the file for appending to as a log is /script_logs/30DyDlt.txt here is my perl -------------------------------------------------- 
###:WAS Oven1 = '/media/oven_web/iportal/uploads'
# rvsd to oven2 - 4-2009  js
# /oven_web/iportal/uploads
#
# to del files older than 30 days
###  2.28.2008 - js
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# 2592000 = 30 day n min (60 *60 * 24 *30 )
use strict;
use POSIX;
# change the below to dlt - dl30    
my $file = "/script_logs/30DyDlt.txt";
my $date = localtime();
my $dir = '/oven_web/iportal/cgi-bin/uploads';
opendir(DIR,$dir) || die "Can't open $dir : $!\n";
my @files = readdir(DIR); # you may want to grep only certain files he
+re
close(DIR);
my $logmsg = $date/$dir/$file(@files);
#my $logmsg = $date/$dir/$file;
#print $logmsg = $date/$dir/$file;
open FILE, ">> $logmsg " or die " cannot open logfie $logfile for appe
+nd $!";

foreach my $file(@files)
{
    my $now = time;
    my @stat = stat("$dir/$file");
    if ($stat[9] < ($now - 2592000))
    {
        print "Deleting $dir/$file...";
        #unlink("$dir/$file");
        #print "Done.\n";
        print LOGFILE $logmsg, "\n";
    }

}
close LOGFILE;

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--------------------- I am unsure if I need the use POSIX; -- i read that might help ... it didn't Any assistance would be appreciated. I seem to not be declareing some vars properly Thanks!

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