--- a/debian/rules	Sat Jan 03 22:47:10 2015 +0100
+++ b/debian/rules	Mon Jan 05 10:53:48 2015 +0100
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1
+export PERL5LIB=
 
 %:	
 	dh $@
@@ -17,85 +18,3 @@
 override_dh_installman:
 	dh_installmanpages
 
-#-ifneq (,$(findstring debug,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
-#-	CFLAGS += -g
-#-endif
-#-ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
-#-	INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s
-#-endif
-#-
-#-configure: configure-stamp
-#-configure-stamp:
-#-	dh_testdir
-#-	# Add here commands to configure the package.
-#-
-#-	touch configure-stamp
-#-
-#-
-#-build: build-stamp
-#-
-#-build-stamp: configure-stamp 
-#-	dh_testdir
-#-
-#-	# Add here commands to compile the package.
-#-	$(MAKE) prefix=/usr
-#-	#/usr/bin/docbook-to-man debian/logbuch.sgml > logbuch.1
-#-
-#-	touch build-stamp
-#-
-#-clean:
-#-	dh_testdir
-#-	dh_testroot
-#-	rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
-#-
-#-	# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
-#-	-$(MAKE) clean
-#-
-#-	dh_clean
-#-
-#-install: build
-#-	dh_testdir
-#-	dh_testroot
-#-	dh_clean -k
-#-	dh_installdirs
-#-
-#-	# Add here commands to install the package into debian/logbuch.
-#-	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=debian/logbuch prefix=/usr
-#-
-#-
-#-# Build architecture-independent files here.
-#-binary-indep: build install
-#-# We have nothing to do by default.
-#-
-#-# Build architecture-dependent files here.
-#-binary-arch: build install
-#-	dh_testdir
-#-	dh_testroot
-#-#	dh_installdebconf	
-#-	dh_installdocs
-#-#	dh_installexamples
-#-#	dh_installmenu
-#-#	dh_installlogrotate
-#-#	dh_installemacsen
-#-#	dh_installpam
-#-#	dh_installmime
-#-#	dh_installinit
-#-#	dh_installcron
-#-#	dh_installman
-#-#	dh_installinfo
-#-#	dh_undocumented
-#-	dh_installchangelogs 
-#-#	dh_link
-#-#	dh_strip
-#-#	dh_compress
-#-#	dh_fixperms
-#-#	dh_makeshlibs
-#-	dh_installdeb
-#-	dh_perl
-#-#	dh_shlibdeps
-#-	dh_gencontrol
-#-	dh_md5sums
-#-	dh_builddeb
-#-
-#-binary: binary-indep binary-arch
-#-.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure

--- a/log.pl	Sat Jan 03 22:47:10 2015 +0100
+++ b/log.pl	Mon Jan 05 10:53:48 2015 +0100
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 use lib "/etc/logbuch";
 use config;
 
+
 # print @config::mailto, "\n";
 
 #+-------+---------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
@@ -63,14 +64,18 @@
 my $MAGIC    = "#--- all changes below are ignored ---#\n";
 my $NODENAME = (split /\./, hostname)[0];
 
-my $opt_db      = $config::db // 1;
+package config {
+    # default values if not set in the config file
+    our $db //= 1;
+    our $logfile = "/root/LOG.$NODENAME";
+}
+
+my $opt_db      = $config::db;
 my $opt_mail    = 1;
 my $opt_message = "";
 my $opt_apt     = "";
 my $opt_initdir = "";
-my $opt_file    = defined $config::logfile    # use it twice
-  ? $config::logfile
-  : "/root/LOG.$NODENAME";
+my $opt_file    = $config::logfile;
 
 my $Dbh;