hi monks, i have the following code that works 100% basically i have a open port and it listens for connections then once a connection is established it saves all the data to a log file, the problem is the connection will stay open for 12 hrs + and keep sending data, so how can i save the second and third etc connection's data, i might hve up to 50 connections at a time here is my existing code 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

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

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

$host = hostname();

my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET(
                         LocalHost => $host,
                         LocalPort => $port,
                         Proto => 'tcp',
                         Listen => 5,
                         Reuse => 1,
                         );

if (!$sock){
     die "no socket :$!";
}


my($new_sock, $c_addr, $buf);
#open($log, '>>', 'log.txt') || die "Couldn't open log.txt: $!";
while (($new_sock, $c_addr) = $sock->accept())
{
  my ($client_port, $c_ip) =sockaddr_in($c_addr);
  my $client_ipnum = inet_ntoa($c_ip);
  my $client_host =gethostbyaddr($c_ip, AF_INET);
  print "got a connection from: $client_host"," [$client_ipnum] ";

  while (defined ($buf = <$new_sock>))
 {
  open ($log, '>>','log.txt') || die "Couldn't open log.txt: $!";

  print $buf;
  print $log $buf;
  close $log;
 }
}

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and here is an example of data recieved 

$MENQ,run,l1, 0E13,,839469
$GPRMC,152457.001,A,2232.3347,N,11401.2021,E,0.2,017.0,180507,,,A*66

$MENQ,run,c9, 0E13,,839469
$GPRMC,152612.001,A,2232.3722,N,11401.2106,E,0.1,194.9,180507,,,A*66

$MENQ,run,f9, 0E13,,839469
$GPRMC,152642.001,A,2232.3245,N,11401.1969,E,0.1,198.0,180507,,,A*60

$MENQ,run,f9, 0E13,,839469
$GPRMC,152642.001,A,2232.3245,N,11401.1969,E,0.1,198.0,180507,,,A*60

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thanks K-

In reply to multiple connections by xarex

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