Oh... i did not take it as impolite. it is true that I did get the code elsewhere. and -- if you haven't guessed -- i am no 'very good' my level of understanding is one of welding together the wisdom of others... as is the case here. I attempted to integrate your wisdom 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

# 2592000 = 30 day n min (60 *60 * 24 *30 )

use strict;
use POSIX;
use warnings;

# change the below to dlt - dl30    
my $logfile = "/script_logs/30DyDlt-LOG.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 h
+ere
my @files = grep{-f "$dir/$_"} readdir(DIR);


close(DIR);
### my $logmsg = $date/$dir/$file;
my $logmsg = "$date/$dir/$file";

#print $logmsg = $date/$dir/$file;

open LOGFILE, ">> $logmsg " or die " cannot open logfie $logfile for a
+ppend $!";


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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that blew up with /usr/bin/perl /oven_script/tst/dlt30day-oven1d-j3.pl Global symbol "$file" requires explicit package name at /oven_script/tst/dlt30day-oven1d-j3.pl line 16. Execution of /oven_script/tst/dlt30day-oven1d-j3.pl aborted due to compilation errors. But -- thanks!

In reply to Re^2: how to log a process by zimbot
in thread how to log a process by Anonymous Monk

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