diff --git a/clusterd/clusterd b/clusterd/clusterd
index 974a9801..909ea335 100755
--- a/clusterd/clusterd
+++ b/clusterd/clusterd
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use strict;
 
 # https://github.molgen.mpg.de/donald/clusterd
 
-our $REVISION='1.102';
+our $REVISION='1.103';
 
 #use lib ('/home/buczek/cluster/Donald/blib/lib');
 
@@ -1437,6 +1437,7 @@ if (defined $options{'push'}) {
 
 	if ($options{'syslog'} or not $options{'foreground'}) {
 		openlog('clusterd','pid','daemon');
+		Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix');		# with 'native' we get EOLs in the logfile, option "noeol" doesn't work
 		$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { syslog('warning',@_); };
 		$SIG{__DIE__}  = sub { syslog('crit',@_);syslog('crit','exiting');exit 1;};
 		open (STDOUT,'>','/dev/null');