Hi, I am creating a perl script, wherein I need to find certain strings in logs file, if found then execute the command. The script I am trying to create is something like this.. ######################################## #!/usr/bin/perl open(F,"/tmp/input") || die "Can't open /tmp/input $!\n"; while(<F>){ if ( $_ == "has gone down" ) { run start server command } } ################################################# The line format is something like this: Feb 12 2009 14:25:03 host car 2359: CRITICAL 280803 Server ds.domain.com:55389 has gone down. But I am wondering how to get it right, as my intention is to look out for the words "has gone down", then execute command to start the server. But I may have issue as the words occur multiple times. So how to track the occurence and keep a history like comparing with time when server was started last time. We are planning to run this script every 15 min. Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Scott

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