Ok -- that didn't exctly work ---BUT SOLUTION! -- and certainly yallz wisdom proved Exactly what i needed: I think this is working - is logging & deleating 

###: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;

# change the below to dlt - 

my $dir = '/oven_web/iportal/cgi-bin/uploads2';
my $now2 = localtime time;
my $logfile = "/oven_script/script_logs/30DayDlt-LOG.txt";
open (LOGFILE, ">>$logfile") or die "Cannot open logfile $logfile for 
+append $!";

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);

print LOGFILE "$now2 \n";

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 "$dir/$file deleted\n";

    }



}

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I know you had some ...more sophisicated ways of dealing with the time... I fell back on what I understood. ( grin ) I suppose I *could be premature with the happy dance -- but. It sure looks good. well, the odds look good. I am sure the code looks clumsy to you. How about that double var for current time $now & $now2 ( i am to happy to be ashamed -- refinement will come) all the thanks to you here is a question ? do i need to Close the log at the end?

In reply to Re^4: how to log a process by zimbot
in thread how to log a process by Anonymous Monk

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