Erm... maybe a silly question: you do not run syslog, do you? If you run netstat -an | grep 514 and see a line like 

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:514             0.0.0.0:*

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chances are there's a process already listening.

--shmem

update: it is a silly question; if there was, it would die "Cant establish socket"

Set up the socket as DGRAM: 

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
                                LocalAddr => 'loghost',
                                LocalPort => 514,
                                Proto => 'udp',
                                Type  => SOCK_DGRAM,
                                # Listen => '5'  # for SOCK_STREAM
) or die "Cant establish socket";

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in thread UDP Socket: Resource temporarily unavailable by atistler

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