in reply to Alarm firing immediately instead of waiting for timeout

I haven't really changed much in the script, and haven't changed anything in the eval block (below). What could be causing it to "alarm" immediately?

If someone has screwed with the configuration file and either set the timeout to 0, or omitted the 'script.timeout' entry completely, then 

$script_timeout = $values_hash{'script.timeout'};

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would cause it.

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