Hi, yup, looked at File::Tail, didn't think it could work with rolling logs, unless I read the spec wrong. Anyway, no matter I think I found a way to check this using the inode of the file and the File::Stat module, added these lines to the main loop: 
if  ( stat($file)->ino != $inode ) { # file has rolled if true
                close (FILE);   
                open (FILE, "$file") or die "Cannot open file $file: $
+!\n";
                $inode = stat(*FILE)->ino;
        }

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Obviously set $inode before entering the loop. Does seem to do the trick, but I need to do some more testing Thanks Jon

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