diff --git a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
index 15950e13..9244d85a 100644
--- a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
+++ b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ eval $(awk -F' *= *' '$1 ~ /DBPath/ { print $1 "=" $2 }' /etc/pacman.conf)
 
 mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATE_DB"
 ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" &> /dev/null
-fakeroot pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" &> /dev/null
+fakeroot pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null
 pacman -Qqu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" 2> /dev/null
 
 exit 0