diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1ab68ff82..a04874d6c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ script:
 - echo $GITHUB_TOKEN
 - git log --pretty=format:"%s %b" -2
 
-- perl travis.pl
-#- if [ $TRAVIS_EVENT_TYPE == "pull_request" ]; then perl ./travis.pl;  fi
+#- perl travis.pl
+- if [ $TRAVIS_EVENT_TYPE == "pull_request" ]; then perl ./travis.pl;  fi
 
 
 
diff --git a/travis.pl b/travis.pl
index 70a51d7ac..4d78af1be 100644
--- a/travis.pl
+++ b/travis.pl
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ sub build_xcat_core{
         }
     }
 
-    $cmd = "sudo ./build-ubunturepo -c UP=0 BUILDALL=1";
+    my $cmd = "sudo ./build-ubunturepo -c UP=0 BUILDALL=1";
     @output = runcmd("$cmd");
     print ">>>>>Dumper the output of '$cmd'\n";
     print Dumper \@output;