--- a/log.pl	Tue Jan 06 11:13:50 2015 +0100
+++ b/log.pl	Tue Jan 06 11:53:18 2015 +0100
@@ -64,14 +64,10 @@
 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;