#!perl
use strict;

my $n = 3; my $s = 10;
print "Log generator running .. $n events every $s secs .. \n";
open OUT,'>','c:/temp/diag.log' or die "$!";
select OUT; $|=1;
while (1){
  print STDOUT scalar localtime."\n";
  for (1..$n){
    print scalar localtime,"-  abc is higher than 5 seconds xyz\n";
  }
  print scalar localtime."- some other log message $_\n" for 0...rand(10);
  sleep($s);
}