[logs] Logging oddity from FreeBSD

[Tina Bird]

Hi all -- I've discovered a bit of syslog data that I can't explain.

Jun 13 00:57:57 <hostname> kernel: Jun 13 00:57:57 <hostname>
named[45636]: transfer of 'example.com/IN' from xyz.xyz.xyz.xyz#53: failed
to
connect: timed out

For those of us with mail clients that automatically line wrap, that's all a
single line, stored in /var/log/messages. So clearly there's some oddity
happening with regard to a missing newline.

If I assume the obvious place for the break --

Jun 13 00:57:57 <hostname> kernel: 

Jun 13 00:57:57 <hostname> named[45636]: transfer of 'example.com/IN' from
xyz.xyz.xyz.xyz#53: failed to connect: timed out

Why in the world would the kernel write an empty messager like that? The
only thing I can come up with (and it's completely unconvincing to me, so I
assume it's pretty far wrong) is that whatever weirdness happened with the
linewrap caused the second message to overwrite part of the first message.

Anyone have a more plausible explanation?

thanks -- tbird