diff -Naur nagios3-clean/base/utils.c nagios3/base/utils.c
--- nagios3-clean/base/utils.c  2007-05-25 22:10:32.000000000 +0200
+++ nagios3/base/utils.c        2007-05-30 18:19:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -4125,8 +4125,8 @@
                if(input[0]=='#')
                        continue;

-               /* whitespace indicates end of record */
-               else if(input[0]=='\x0'){
+               /* newline at beginning of the line indicates end of record */
+               else if(input[0]=='\n'){

                        /* we have something... */
                        if(new_cr){
