I have the following Perl script and it works just how I want it to. The only problem I have have is when executed each line of the output is tabbed (staggard) instead of left justified. This is the first time i have ever attempted to use the curses module. If there is another module that will work better let me know.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Curses;
use Net::Ping;

@host_array = qw(fee fie foo quan);

initscr();
noecho();
cbreak();
nodelay(1);

while(1) {
  clear ();
  refresh();
  # High precision syntax (requires Time::HiRes)
  foreach $host (@host_array) {
    $p = Net::Ping->new();
    $p->hires();
    ($ret, $duration, $ip) = $p->ping($host, 5.5);
    printf("$host [ip: $ip] is down\n") unless $p->ping($host, 2);
    printf("$host [ip: $ip] is alive (packet return time: %.2f ms)\n",
+ 1000 * $duration) if $ret;
    $p->close();
  }
  sleep 2;
}

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thanks, Sean

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