rotates logfiles, given a base filename as an argument. Its one of those things that there is definatley more than one way to do it. I have tested this and it seems to work - if you use it and you delete your web servers log files, look only to yourself for blame.

UPDATE
removed use File::Copy; and inserted rename
Thanks merlyn!
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

die("usage: rotate_logs.pl <base logfile name>\n")
    unless ( $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[0] =~ m/\w+/ );

my $baselog=$ARGV[0];
my $last=5;

while ( $last > 1 )
{
   $last--;
   rename_logs($last, $last+1);
}

rename( "$baselog", "${baselog}_1" ) if -e $baselog;

open FH, ">$baselog" or die("unable to open baselog for writing: $!\n"
+);
print FH "[ LOG created ", scalar(localtime), " ]\n";
close (FH);

sub rename_logs
{
     my $x=shift;
     my $y=shift;
     if ( -e "${baselog}_$x" )
     {
         rename("${baselog}_$x", "${baselog}_$y");
     }
}

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