diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4eb0955e87..05be59ccae 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Jan 20 13:35:36 PST 2009 John Levon <john.levon@sun.com>
+
+	* qemud/qemud.c: respect LIBVIRT_DEBUG when logging to syslog
+
 Tue Jan 20 22:32:44 CET 2009 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>
 
 	* src/logging.c: fix openlog() ident lifetime for Solaris
diff --git a/qemud/qemud.c b/qemud/qemud.c
index d60cb3526c..85eece7bca 100644
--- a/qemud/qemud.c
+++ b/qemud/qemud.c
@@ -2356,10 +2356,15 @@ qemudSetLogging(virConfPtr conf, const char *filename) {
      */
     GET_CONF_STR (conf, filename, log_outputs);
     if (log_outputs == NULL) {
-        if (godaemon)
-            virLogParseOutputs("3:syslog:libvirtd");
-        else
+        if (godaemon) {
+            char *tmp = NULL;
+            if (virAsprintf (&tmp, "%d:syslog:libvirtd", log_level) < 0)
+                goto free_and_fail;
+            virLogParseOutputs (tmp);
+            VIR_FREE (tmp);
+        } else {
             virLogParseOutputs("0:stderr:libvirtd");
+        }
     } else
         virLogParseOutputs(log_outputs);
     ret = 0;