I am new to perl and have been looking in tutorials and searching for an answer to no avail. I need to come up with a way to listen on a specific port for data coming in from a PBX and then append this data to a file. I was trying to use netcat for this but netcat will not stay open in the background.

I then tried to do something with perl but have hit a dead end. Here is what I am trying to run as a script

#!/usr/bin/perl


use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Socket;
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
        LocalHost => '127.0.0.1',
        LocalPort => '6000',
        Proto => 'tcp',
        Listen => 1,
        );
die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;

my $new_sock = $sock->accept();
        while(<$new_sock>) {
        print $_;
}
close ($sock);
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this bit of code works and if I telnet to the box/port, I get everything I type on the screen. Now to take it a step further, I wanted to redirect this to a file and append it. I expect this to run in the background all day long as the PBX will be sending info on the calls that come in that we need for analysis.

I have tried redirecting the perl script at the command line

 perl receiver.pl >> /tmp/test_file

with no success and I have tried to add some logic in the script by adding a fh but that wasn't working either.

my $new_sock = $sock->accept();
        while(<$new_sock>) {
        open my $fh, '>>', $file or die $!;
close $fh;
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Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

.Thanks, Steve

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