From e7eece60d802ecbba03374eb4884e27c11ff8a80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Maloney <DMaloney@rapid7.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:41:49 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] add a nil catch to timestamp file sink

an additional nil guard is needed here just to be sure
---
 lib/rex/logging/sinks/timestamp_flatfile.rb | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/rex/logging/sinks/timestamp_flatfile.rb b/lib/rex/logging/sinks/timestamp_flatfile.rb
index bb8fe132b8..b7fa229922 100644
--- a/lib/rex/logging/sinks/timestamp_flatfile.rb
+++ b/lib/rex/logging/sinks/timestamp_flatfile.rb
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ module Sinks
 class TimestampFlatfile < Flatfile
 
   def log(sev, src, level, msg, from) # :nodoc:
+    return unless msg.present?
     msg = msg.chop.gsub(/\x1b\[[0-9;]*[mG]/,'').gsub(/[\x01-\x02]/, " ")
     fd.write("[#{get_current_timestamp}] #{msg}\n")
     fd.flush