Working off serial port

[K Creason]

I've got a situation where I can use Perl, but not sure where to start.
 
 Because of crank calls to Emergency, we want to log PBX activity. I've got
a unix machine nearby... heh heh. So I thinks, what better way to capture
and parse the data from it's gobblety gook than to use Perl?
 
 Two big problems:
1. It's got to run all the time, even when no-one is logged in
2. How do you get info off the hardware in Perl?
 
 The actual OS is HPUX, not linux. :(

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