--- a/log.pl	Mon Jan 05 11:32:57 2015 +0100
+++ b/log.pl	Tue Jan 06 11:13:50 2015 +0100
@@ -64,10 +64,14 @@
 my $MAGIC    = "#--- all changes below are ignored ---#\n";
 my $NODENAME = (split /\./, hostname)[0];
 
-package config {
+{
+
+    package config; 
+
     # default values if not set in the config file
     our $db //= 1;
     our $logfile = "/root/LOG.$NODENAME";
+
 }
 
 my $opt_db      = $config::db;