That script doesn't create a file, you need to show the code you are running.

#!perl
use strict;
use autodie;
use Win32::Service qw'GetServices GetStatus StopService';
use POSIX;
my $date = strftime("%Y-%m-%d", localtime);
my @state_name =  qw( UNKNOWN Stopped START_PENDING STOP_PENDING
                      Running CONTINUE_PENDING PAUSE_PENDING
                      PAUSED  ERROR  );

my $filename = '/log_script/ServiceList.txt';
open FILE, '<', $filename;# autodie
my $hostname = <FILE>;
chomp $hostname;
my @services = <FILE>;
close FILE;
open MYFILE, ">>", "/log_script/service_logs/servicestatus\_$date\.log
+";
print MYFILE "Checking Services available for '$hostname'\n";
my %available=();
GetServices($hostname,\%available) or die "$!";

# add short names
$available{$_} = $_ for values %available;

for (my $n=0; $n <= 3; $n++)
{ 
    my $t = scalar localtime;
    print MYFILE "\nChecking services in list - run $n $t\n";
    while (@services)
    {
        s/^\s+|\s+$//g;             # trim leading and trailing whites
+pace
        if (exists $available{$_})
            {
                my $shortname = $available{$_};
                my %status;
                GetStatus($hostname, $shortname, \%status);
                my $state_no = $status{'CurrentState'};
                printf  MYFILE " ServiceStatus: %s %s %s \n", $hostnam
+e, $shortname, $state_name[$state_no]; 
            } 
        else 
            {
                print MYFILE "-- ERROR -- '$_' status not avaiable\n";
            }
    }
    sleep (10)
}
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This is what I modified based on the script you gave me. I tried an approach that using windows scheduler to run original script at an interval time, but I did not get the output file via that approach. I do not know what configuration I have missed. Now I am trying to hard coding the repeats to check services, but it generated a huge file within a min.

#while (@services)
for (@services){
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