diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 41fe5f4995975397f7399a3786de4e2bdcb28730..1eee5779ee5529b47d2a020bf71403b2965fbb69 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Applied patch from Mark Grondona that fixes the validation of the
     PluginDir to support the colon separated list of directories as documented.
  -- BLUEGENE - squeue -o %R now prints more readable info for small blocks
-
+ -- sacct - fixed garbage being printed out on uninitialized variable.
 * Changes in SLURM 2.0.7
 ========================
  -- Fix bug in select/cons_res when nodes are configured in more than one 
diff --git a/src/sacct/print.c b/src/sacct/print.c
index 48a9144c3b147d4e699f49fc749b86903593685a..ec612a21ba30e86de01cf1a856b0a8807992c4bd 100644
--- a/src/sacct/print.c
+++ b/src/sacct/print.c
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ void print_fields(type_t type, void *object)
 	while((field = list_next(print_fields_itr))) {
 		char *tmp_char = NULL;
 		int tmp_int = NO_VAL, tmp_int2 = NO_VAL;
-
+		memset(&outbuf, 0, sizeof(outbuf));
 		switch(field->type) {
 		case PRINT_ALLOC_CPUS:
 			switch(type) {
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ void print_fields(type_t type, void *object)
 			default:
 				tmp_int = NO_VAL;
 				break;
-			}
+			}			
 			if(tmp_int != NO_VAL)
 				convert_num_unit((float)tmp_int,
 						 outbuf, sizeof(outbuf),