For some reason I am not getting anything to syslog and I am lost to where I went wrong. Anyone have any ideas on this one??

#!/usr/bin/perl


use strict;
use Sys::Syslog;

my $dir    = "/usr/local/chaser/";
my $file   = "load_data_file.*";
my $ls     = '/bin/ls';
my $wc     = "/bin/wc -l";
my $cmd    = "$ls $dir" . "$file \|" . "$wc";

open(RET, "$cmd |");
chomp(my @return = <RET>);
close(RET);

if(@return >1) {
    openlog("files", "user", "system");
    syslog('alert', '%s', 'this is a test');
    closelog();
}
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