Thanks guys, I have the following and its working great: 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $socket;
my $port = 7777;
my $host;

use IO::Socket;
use Sys::Hostname;

$SIG{CHLD} = sub {wait ()};

$host = hostname();

# START LOOP HERE
my $main_sock = new IO::Socket::INET (LocalHost => $host,
                                   LocalPort => $port,
                                   Listen    => 5,
                                   Proto     => 'tcp',
                                   Reuse     => 1,
                                  );
if (!$main_sock)
    {
     die "Socket could not be created. Reason: $!\n";
}

my $buf;
my $new_sock;
my $pid;
while ($new_sock = $main_sock->accept()) {
    $pid = fork();
    if ($pid == 0) {
        # Child process
        while (defined ($buf = <$new_sock>))
        {
           # do something with $buf ....
          my @lines = split(/\|/,$buf);
        exit(0);   # Child process exits when it is done.
       }
    } # else 'tis the parent process, which goes back to accept()
}
close ($main_sock);
exit;

However how do i save the data recieved to a log file? say /usr/home/l
+og.txt

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