#!/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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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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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?