2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
index 9edaa15053..5ff6599ee8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 
 set -e
 
-if [ -f /etc/syslog.conf ]; then
-        . /etc/syslog.conf
+if [ -f /etc/syslog-startup.conf ]; then
+        . /etc/syslog-startup.conf
         LOG_LOCAL=0
         LOG_REMOTE=0
         for D in $DESTINATION; do
diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog.conf b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
index d4a0e02f5b..903a60ce8b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog.conf
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog-startup.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-DESTINATION="buffer"            # log destinations (buffer file remote)
-MARKINT=20                      # intervall between --mark-- entries
+# This configuration file is used by the busybox syslog init script,
+# /etc/init.d/syslog[.busybox] to set syslog configuration at start time.
+
+DESTINATION=buffer              # log destinations (buffer file remote)
+MARKINT=20                      # interval between --mark-- entries
 LOGFILE=/var/log/messages       # where to log (file)
 REMOTE=loghost:514              # where to log (syslog remote)
 REDUCE=no                       # reduce-size logging