Hi Everyone, I'm quite new guy in Perl so I need your help;) I wrote some sniffer which will log every packet into log file. So basically every packet is saved into file. I want to switch file every 60 secs, unfortunately I have a problem with that. this checks the time inside the packet_capture subroutine: 
if ( time > $NEXT_TIME )
{
  print "Change file\n";
  thread_log();
}

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and this is subroutine which should change file 
sub thread_log
{
#closing the handler to the current file
if ( -e "log$FILE_NUMBER.log" )
{
  close($LOG_FILE);
}

$FILE_NUMBER += 1;
open( $LOG_FILE, '>', "log$FILE_NUMBER.log" ) or die "Unable to open l
+ogfile:$!\n";

$NEXT_TIME = $NEXT_TIME + 60;
}

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I know that this code can be written in better way so I'm open to any suggestions. Thanks in advance for any help ;)

In reply to Problem with switching log files by ice_ice_ice

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