diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 52b34b663..823598033 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 	* Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
 	    type commands (file in a directory to another directory) 
 	    from working.
+	* Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog 
+	    (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug).  Thanks
+	    to Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
 
 	-Erik Andersen, 
 
diff --git a/logger.c b/logger.c
index 35bbb6692..7aada5dbc 100644
--- a/logger.c
+++ b/logger.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ extern int logger_main(int argc, char **argv)
     if (toStdErrFlag==TRUE)
 	fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", buf);
 
-    write( fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
+    write( fd, buf, strlen(buf)+1);
 
     close(fd);
     exit( TRUE);
diff --git a/sysklogd/logger.c b/sysklogd/logger.c
index 35bbb6692..7aada5dbc 100644
--- a/sysklogd/logger.c
+++ b/sysklogd/logger.c
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ extern int logger_main(int argc, char **argv)
     if (toStdErrFlag==TRUE)
 	fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", buf);
 
-    write( fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
+    write( fd, buf, strlen(buf)+1);
 
     close(fd);
     exit( TRUE);