Okay, I have the equivalent of writers block at the moment. I just need some suggestions, no working code.
What I am doing is this- I read in from a config file who’s structure is the following 
/var/log/messages
/var/log/secure
/var/log/httpd/access_log
etc

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I take each in, and make and MD5 hash on each. The next part is where I am having the problem.I want to compare the new MD5 hash of the log file to the previous MD5 hash, and if they’re different to run

print “$file is different.\n”;

Am I going about this the right way, or ass backwards? I thought about putting everything into a 3 dimensional array, and just having a counter run through everything… but I don’t know if that is a better or worse way.

Any suggestions/hints/pointers/slaps on my forehead?
The working code that I have so far is: 
use Digest::MD5;
open CONFIGFILE, "<config.ini" or die "I cant open the config file.";
open RESULTS, ">md5TEMP" or die "I cant write the MD5's temp file.";
while (<CONFIGFILE>) {
        chomp;
        $file = $_;
        open(FILE, $file) or die "Can't open $file";
        binmode(FILE);
        $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
        while (<FILE>) {
                $md5->add($_);
        }
        close(FILE);
        print RESULTS $md5->b64digest, "\n";
}
close RESULTS;
close CONFIGFILE;

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Thanks, russ.

Fixed for code tags 2002-01-31 -- dvergin

In reply to Log's and MD5 Hashes by satanklawz

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