Hi,
I am running a perl script as follows:

##BEGIN CODE
&setup_command(); #setup command of 3rd party script to run
&run_command(); #Run 3rd party script. script generates 
                #file.log
my $logfile = "file.log";
if (-M "$logfile" > 0) {
    print "The logfile generated by 3rd party script is not new\n";
    exit(1);
}
##END CODE
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The -M file test operator above always turns True and exits, even though the logfile is newly generated. I beleive that this could be due to the mtime not being refreshed and hence the error. I get this error whether a previous logfile exists or if the logfile is newly created. Any suggestions as to how this problem could be rectified is welcome. Thanks, Bayruds

20040728 Edit by ysth: adjust code tags to only span code