diff --git a/ksysguardd/conf.c b/ksysguardd/conf.c
index 57280614..478cfcb0 100644
--- a/ksysguardd/conf.c
+++ b/ksysguardd/conf.c
@@ -1,140 +1,147 @@
 /*
     KSysGuard, the KDE System Guard
 
     Copyright (c) 2001 Tobias Koenig <tokoe@kde.org>
 
     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
     modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
     License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 
     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
     GNU General Public License for more details.
 
     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
     Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.
 
 */
 
 #include "config-ksysguardd.h"
 
 #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200809L /* strdup */
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 
 #include "Command.h"
 #include "ccont.h"
 #include "conf.h"
 
 CONTAINER LogFileList = 0;
 CONTAINER SensorList = 0;
 
 void LogFileList_cleanup( void *ptr );
 void freeConfigFile( void );
 
 void LogFileList_cleanup( void *ptr )
 {
   if ( ptr ) {
       free( ((ConfigLogFile*)ptr)->name );
   }
   free( ptr );
 }
 
 void freeConfigFile( void )
 {
   destr_ctnr( LogFileList, LogFileList_cleanup );
   destr_ctnr( SensorList, free );
 }
 
 void parseConfigFile( const char *filename )
 {
   FILE* config;
   char line[ 2048 ];
   char *begin, *token, *tmp;
   ConfigLogFile *confLog;
 
   LogFileList = new_ctnr();
   SensorList = new_ctnr();
 
   if ( ( config = fopen( filename, "r" ) ) == NULL ) {
     log_error( "cannot open config file '%s'", filename );
 
     /**
       If we can't open a config file we have to add the
       available sensors manually
      */
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "Acpi" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "Apm" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "CpuInfo" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "DellLaptop" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "DiskStat" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "DiskStats" ) );
 #ifdef HAVE_LMSENSORS
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "LmSensors" ) );
 #endif
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "LoadAvg" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "LogFile" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "Memory" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "NetDev" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "NetStat" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "ProcessList" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "Stat" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "SoftRaid" ) );
     push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( "Uptime" ) );
 
     return;
   }
 
   while ( fgets( line, sizeof( line ), config ) != NULL ) {
     if ( ( line[ 0 ] == '#') || ( strlen( line ) == 0 ) )
       continue;
 
     if ( strchr( line, '#' ) )
       *( strchr( line, '#' ) ) = '\0';
 
     if ( line[ strlen( line ) - 1 ] == '\n' )
       line[ strlen( line ) - 1 ] = '\0';
 
     if ( !strncmp( line, "LogFiles", 8 ) && (begin = strchr( line, '=' )) ) {
       begin++;
 
       for ( token = strtok( begin, "," ); token; token = strtok( NULL, "," ) ) {
         if ( ( confLog = (ConfigLogFile *)malloc( sizeof( ConfigLogFile ) ) ) == NULL ) {
           log_error( "malloc() no free memory avail" );
           continue;
         }
         confLog->name = strdup( token );
         tmp = strchr( confLog->name, ':' );
-        *tmp = '\0';
-        confLog->path = tmp;
-        confLog->path++;
-
-        push_ctnr( LogFileList, confLog );
+        if(tmp)
+        {
+          *tmp = '\0';
+          confLog->path = tmp;
+          confLog->path++;
+          push_ctnr( LogFileList, confLog );
+        }
+        else
+        {
+          print_error("Invalid config file");
+          exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+        }
       }
     }
 
     if ( !strncmp( line, "Sensors", 7 ) && (begin = strchr( line, '=' )) ) {
       begin++;
 
       for ( token = strtok( begin, ","); token; token = strtok( NULL, "," ) )
         push_ctnr( SensorList, strdup( token ) );
     }
   }
 
   fclose( config );
 }
 
 int sensorAvailable( const char *sensor )
 {
   char* name;
 
   for ( name = first_ctnr( SensorList ); name; name = next_ctnr( SensorList ) ) {
     if ( !strcmp( name, sensor ) )
       return 1;
   }
 
   return 0;
 }