Hi I have created a log4perl script that will tail a log file and will check every 10 seconds if there is a new entry in the tailed log file and then send a message accordingly. What I would like is the same , but a extra timer feature that will send an error message every 60 seconds if there is no new message in the log file. This is like an exception to state that maybe what was writing to the log file has stopped. I have pasted the code below Thanks in advance wellsja 
use Log::Log4perl;
use Log::Netcool::MMlogger;
use IO::Select;

# Use a properties file to configure the logging environment
# using the configuration provided in the file .log.conf..
# Note that an XML properties file could also be used
Log::Log4perl->init("sample.conf");
#
# This is  an Array to reference the named loggers
my $log = Log::Log4perl->get_logger("LogFile");
#
##############################################################
#
$select = IO::Select->new();

# repeat next two lines for all filehandles to poll
open(INFILE, "< file.log") || die;
seek(INFILE, 0, 2);


$select->add(*INFILE);

for (;;) {
  if (@ready = $select->can_read) {
    # input waiting on the filehandles in @ready
    foreach $filehandle (@ready) {
       while (<$filehandle>) {
        chomp();
        if (m/^Hello/) {
                $log->error("This is a hello msg");
        }
        else    {
                $log->error("message was not recieved");
        }
       }
    }
  sleep 10;
  }
}

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