diff --git a/src/master/collect-master.conf b/src/master/collect-master.conf
index f506a379c5e55dab66417b93f853aa05b25b3000..83495ab278b5282fa99532964eb308a413f7ea3d 100644
--- a/src/master/collect-master.conf
+++ b/src/master/collect-master.conf
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ port: 5678
 port_compression: 5679
 ; The logging format. See http://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html
 log_format: %(name)s@%(module)s:%(lineno)s	%(asctime)s	%(levelname)s	%(message)s
+syslog_format: ucollect: %(name)s@%(module)s:%(lineno)s    %(asctime)s     %(levelname)s   %(message)s
 ; Severity of the logs. One of TRACE, DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, CRITICAL
 log_severity: TRACE
 ; Where to log. - means stderr.
diff --git a/src/master/collect-master.py b/src/master/collect-master.py
index fc301624a3cfd0403b7ba1bdd20d5d26a72ed9bd..900508d66db5058d9c1bd0989bee28f8c0ba0d0c 100755
--- a/src/master/collect-master.py
+++ b/src/master/collect-master.py
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ if log_file != '-':
 	handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt=master_config.get('log_format')))
 	logging.getLogger().addHandler(handler)
 
-handler_syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address="/dev/log")
+handler_syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address=('localhost', 514))
+handler_syslog.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(fmt=master_config.get('syslog_format')))
 logging.getLogger().addHandler(handler_syslog)
 
 loaded_plugins = {}