diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ea0347f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Version 1.4
+
+ . Skip newline when reading in klog messages
diff --git a/klogd.c b/klogd.c
index 617a8dd..7678cef 100644
--- a/klogd.c
+++ b/klogd.c
@@ -213,6 +213,9 @@
  *	Shortened LOG_LINE_LENGTH in order to get long lines splitted
  *	up earlier and syslogd has a better chance concatenating them
  *	together again.
+ *
+ * Sat Aug 21 12:27:02 CEST 1999: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
+ *	Skip newline when reading in messages.
  */
 
 
@@ -695,7 +698,7 @@ static void LogLine(char *ptr, int len)
 
                if( *ptr == '\n' )  /* newline */
                {
-                  *line++ = *ptr++;  /* copy it in */
+                  ptr++;	/* skip newline */
                   space -= 1;
                   len   -= 1;
 
diff --git a/syslog.c b/syslog.c
index e5ed4fb..03eb4c7 100644
--- a/syslog.c
+++ b/syslog.c
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ vsyslog(pri, fmt, ap)
 	if (!LOG_MASK(LOG_PRI(pri)) || (pri &~ (LOG_PRIMASK|LOG_FACMASK)))
 		return;
 	if (LogFile < 0 || !connected)
-		openlog(LogTag, LogStat | LOG_NDELAY, 0);
+		openlog(LogTag, LogStat | LOG_NDELAY, LogFacility);
 
 	/* set default facility if none specified */
 	if ((pri & LOG_FACMASK) == 0)