Hi Adolf, Thanks for your help on this. I left the original code lines in place for context. They're not really necessary. If it's better, I can remove them and resubmit the patch. For the my $d = $2.': '.$data; suggestion, there is some special processing for the display for the RED section logs. # correct the cut position, just when section=RED if (($cgiparams{'SECTION'} eq 'red' ) && ($sec =~ /(kernel:)(.*)/)) { $sec = 'kernel'; $data = $2.': '.$data; } Using 'my $d = $2. ': ' .$data;' for everything would add the timestamp to the front of the log text displayed for all sections. I'm not sure if the special processing for $data for RED is necessary. I think that the point of the 'if' statement is to clean up the Section display for entries from 'kernel: ippp\d' and 'kernel: isdn.*' matches for RED, but I don't know why adding the timestamp to the front of data would be desirable in that specific case. I don't have any log entries to reference for that though. Thanks, Stephen