Here's my two cents... Change the code around to suit your needs. This code will do away with opening a file of servers (nodes in my case), no sense in creating more files to make a mess of things? ya know?

By the way this has been tested on windows 2000 server 2000 pro and windows Xp

Hope it helps! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Win32::EventLog;

my @nodes = qw(NODE1 NODE2 NODE3);

foreach  my $node(@nodes) {
    &GetEvents($node);
}

sub GetEvents {

    my($myServer) = @_;
    my($date)=join("-", ((split(/\s+/, scalar(localtime)))[0,1,2,4]));
    my($dest);
    my @logs =qw(Security System Application);

    foreach my $eventLog (@logs) {
    
        my $handle=Win32::EventLog->new($eventLog, $myServer) || die "
+Can't open Application EventLog on $myServer $!";
        $dest="C:\\Perl\\scripts\\$eventLog\\$date.evt";
        $handle->Backup($dest) || die "Could not backup and clear the 
+$eventLog EventLog on $myServer ($^E)\n";
        $handle->Close;
    }

}

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In reply to Re: Re: Win32::Eventlog Issues: Access Denied, Incorrect log size by softworkz
in thread Win32::Eventlog Issues: Access Denied, Incorrect log size by OzzyOsbourne

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