Hi list, when rebooting my ubuntu server usually generates a logcheck email that looks as if it was empty because it contains a *lot* of empty lines on top. Usually - at least for me - empty lines are not of any help so i feel those empty lines should be removed. Please find the following diff that i think should be integrated into logcheck: root at www:/usr/sbin# diff -u logcheck.org logcheck --- logcheck.org 2015-10-01 06:33:09.331932123 +0200 +++ logcheck 2015-09-30 09:25:15.017110224 +0200 @@ -682,7 +682,8 @@ # First sort the logs to remove duplicate lines (from different logfiles with # the same lines) and reduce CPU and memory usage afterwards. debug "Sorting logs" -$SORT "$TMPDIR/logoutput"/* | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]\+$//' | cat \ +$SORT "$TMPDIR/logoutput"/* | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]\+$//' | sed -e '/^$/d' | cat \ > "$TMPDIR/logoutput-sorted" \ || error "Could not output to $TMPDIR/logoutput-sorted." Br, Thomas -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3703 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/logcheck-devel/attachments/20151001/07dbdb61/attachment-0001.bin>