Are you sharing this variable with other modules? If not, replace our with my. Does this: perl MSys::Hostname -E 'say hostname();' return consistently?

...and this looks odd...

print $fd $daemon_log_timestamp.' '.our $host.' mrtg[]:['.$log_entry_c
+ategory.']: '.$log_entry.'.'."\n";

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Why are you using our $host here? That doesn't make any sense that I can see ;) Another thing, is that in double-quotes, Perl variables "interpolate":

print $fd "$daemon_log_timestamp $host mrtg[]:[$log_entry_category]: $
+log_entry\n";

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In reply to Re: Uninitialized value from hostname() by stevieb
in thread Uninitialized value from hostname() by eepstein

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