HI,

My name is juan. im totally new with perl...

Im trying to write a script which will read from /var/log/messages and send a mail each time a line with the word IDS is found. I want that the whole line will be sended by mail:

this is what I wrote:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#
# Program to check /var/log/messeges for alerts contining the word IDS
+ and send mails
# in case the word is found- including the line

use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::Mailer;

open (INFO, "/var/log/messages");       # Open the file

while
 { @message = <INFO> / IDS/g                 # Read it into an array
     @message = $&

$mailer = Mail::Mailer->new("smtp", "10.83.27.71");
$mailer->open( 'From'    => 'Syslog  <syslog@hpda.com.ar>',
               'To'      => 'gabriela pinado <gabriela.pinado@hpda.com
+.ar>',
               'Subject' => 'PiX Detected Attack ' );
print $mailer <<@message;
close($mailer)                      or die "can't close mailer: $!";
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when I execute the script I get this:

[root@juanlinux perl]# perl ./logcheck
Array found where operator expected at ./logcheck line 14, at end of l
+ine
        (Do you need to predeclare g?)
Scalar found where operator expected at ./logcheck line 16, near "$&

$mailer"
        (Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated at ./logcheck line 20.
Array found where operator expected at ./logcheck line 22, at end of l
+ine
  (Might be a runaway multi-line << string starting on line 20)
        (Missing operator before ?)
syntax error at ./logcheck line 13, near "{"
Global symbol "@message" requires explicit package name at ./logcheck 
+line 13.
Global symbol "@message" requires explicit package name at ./logcheck 
+line 14.
Global symbol "$mailer" requires explicit package name at ./logcheck l
+ine 16.
Global symbol "$mailer" requires explicit package name at ./logcheck l
+ine 17.
Global symbol "$mailer" requires explicit package name at ./logcheck l
+ine 20.
Global symbol "$mailer" requires explicit package name at ./logcheck l
+ine 20.
syntax error at ./logcheck line 22, near "@message"
Global symbol "@message" requires explicit package name at ./logcheck 
+line 22.
Execution of ./logcheck aborted due to compilation errors.
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I get so much errors and I dont know how to hendle them... please give me a hend !!!

thanks a lot for your time and help!

Juan

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