diff --git a/fhem.pl b/fhem.pl
index f0944f0f7..50563539d 100755
--- a/fhem.pl
+++ b/fhem.pl
@@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ sub cfgDB_FileWrite;
 use vars qw($addTimerStacktrace);# set to 1 by fhemdebug
 use vars qw($auth_refresh);
 use vars qw($cmdFromAnalyze);   # used by the warnings-sub
-use vars qw($cvsid);            # used in 98_version.pm
 use vars qw($devcount);         # Maximum device number, used for storing
 use vars qw($featurelevel); 
 use vars qw($fhemForked);       # 1 in a fhemFork()'ed process, else undef
@@ -278,7 +277,7 @@ use constant {
 };
 
 $selectTimestamp = gettimeofday();
-$cvsid = '$Id$';
+my $cvsid = '$Id$';
 
 my $AttrList = "alias comment:textField-long eventMap:textField-long ".
                "group room suppressReading userattr ".