Ok, here is a suggestion (not tested with data):
First, open the files and directories that you need so that this is all in one place at the beginning. I mean if this was a huge calculation monster, you wouldn't want it to run for an hour only to find out that you couldn't open the file to write the data to! That's a style thing for future reference.
File and directory handles will close when the program exits. This program will run in far less than one second and is just ~20 lines. Don't worry about close($x). 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $logfile = "script_logs/30DyDlt-LOG.txt";
open (LOGFILE, ">>$logfile") or die "Cannot open logfile $logfile for 
+append $!";

my $dir = 'oven_web/iportal/cgi-bin/uploads';
opendir(DIR,$dir) || die "Can't open directory $dir $!";

my @files = grep{-f "$dir/$_"} readdir(DIR);

my $current_date_time = time();     #this is seconds +- epoch value!
my $thirty_days = 60 * 60 * 24 *30; #num seconds in 30 days

foreach my $file(@files)
{
    my $file_time = (stat("$dir/$file"))[9];
    if ( $file_time < ($current_date_time - $thirty_days) )
    {
    print "Deleting $dir/$file...\n"; #for the user on terminal

    unlink("$dir/$file") or die "unable to unlink file $file in $dir $
+!";
    print LOGFILE "$dir/$file deleted\n";
    }
}

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Update: could be better: have fun! 
foreach $file (readdir D)
{
    if ((-M "$dir/$file" > 30) && !unlink("$dir/$file"))
    {
       print "Oh no!!!!!\n";
    }
    # else it worked ###
}

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In reply to Re^3: how to log a process by Marshall
in thread how to log a process by Anonymous Monk

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