Hey guys,

I was just wondering if there were any ideas about how to roll over a file that is parsing a continuous Snort log file. I am currently keeping Snort on 24/7 to log all network problems and then having a Perl program with Tail, parse out the information I need with each entry. However, I want to be able to have one file created each day, rather than having to manually do it myself. Right now I am basically Tailing the Snort file, parsing it, and appending it to a file x.log that I specify (just a simple text file). Is there a way to tell Perl to log for x hours or until x MB and then create a new file to append and write subsequent parsings to?

Thanks in advance

In reply to Rolling over a Parser File by ahuang14

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