I thought at first it might be the \n at the end of the print statement at the end, I removed it and still get the warning. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Ill post the config file ...

No need to post the config file just yet. Do you understand the error? Can you write a one-liner that will reproduce the error? Here's an example

perl -we"print $_"
Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 1.
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Is that close to what you wrote? Now try this

perl -Mdiagnostics -we"print $_"
Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 1 (#1)

    (W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already
    defined.  It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake.
    To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables.

    To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation
    you used the undefined value in.  Note, however, that perl optimizes your
    program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily
    appear literally in your program.  For example, "that $foo" is
    usually optimized into "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer to
    the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your
    program.

So what is line 95 of your program? It's

print NEWSTATS "$name,$sts,$svcwatch,$description,$nowstring\n";
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So what does the error message mean then? It means that either $name, $sts, $svcwatch, $description or $nowstring is undefined.

Do you now know how to fix it?

Considered by holli: "make this a categorized answer." Vote (keep/edit/delete)=6/9/1
Unconsidered by davido: Consideration doesn't make sense. Without the thread, moving this reply would take it out of context.

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