Need help with logic in creating perl script to monitor if files are being sent

[jonathan184]

how to monitor and find out if files test1_* and test2_* files were sent in an hour and if not send an email
This is on a unix system basically I got a cronjob that runs every sec polling a ftp dir which name dir1 and transfers the file to another server

So there are two types of files i want to check if are coming through and if they did not come through in an hour send an email.

so files test1_* and test2_* I am checking for.

Could somebody help me out with the logic.

The logic i am thinking is for the perl script
if test1_* or test2_* create date < time on server
then files are send ing within an hour
else files are not sending through

when 1 hour reaches and no files were sent in an hour send an email.


Could somebody help me out and let me know where i am going wrong withthe logic please.

[KevinADC]

you would have to check if the creation date was within the last hour, not if it was just less than the server time.

if (creation date < server time and creation date > server time - 1 hour)

if you are using perls time() function

$time = time;
if ($blah < $time && $blah > $time-3600) 

where $blah is the file creation time in epoch seconds