diff --git a/Shorewall/action.AutoBL b/Shorewall/action.AutoBL
index c5e0f77b6..cddd04b50 100644
--- a/Shorewall/action.AutoBL
+++ b/Shorewall/action.AutoBL
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ fatal_error "Invalid successive interval ($succesive) passed to AutoBL" unless $
 fatal_error "Invalid packet count ($count) passed to AutoBL"            unless $count =~ /^\d+$/ && $count;
 fatal_error "Invalid blacklist time ($bltime) passed to AutoBL"         unless $bltime =~ /^\d+$/ && $bltime;
 validate_level( $level );
-
+1;
 ?end perl
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