diff --git a/clusterd/clusterd b/clusterd/clusterd
index 5625d04..b38a9e5 100755
--- a/clusterd/clusterd
+++ b/clusterd/clusterd
@@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ sub delete_host {
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 package My::NetlogReceiver;
+use Sys::Syslog;
 
 our $listen_socket;
 our $TCP_MAX=1024;
@@ -668,7 +669,7 @@ sub day {
 sub bigben {
 	my $day=day();
 	$day le $DAY_LAST_MSG and return;
-	warn "NETLOG ==================================================== morning has broken ====\n";
+	syslog('warning', "NETLOG ==================================================== morning has broken ====\n");
 	$DAY_LAST_MSG=$day;
 }
 
@@ -702,8 +703,7 @@ sub receive {
 		last if length($$bufref)<2+$l;
 		my $msg=substr($$bufref,2,$l);
 		$$bufref=substr($$bufref,2+$l);
-		$|=1;
-		warn "NETLOG $msg\n" unless $msg=~/NETLOG/;
+		syslog('warning', "NETLOG $msg\n") unless $msg=~/NETLOG/;
 	}
 	My::Select::reader_requeue();
 }
@@ -769,7 +769,6 @@ chomp($my_unixrev);
 
 our $CLUSTER_PW;
 our $CLUSTER_PW_FILE='/etc/clusterd.password';
-our $OLD_CLUSTER_PW_FILE='/root/clusterd.password';
 our $CLUSTER_PW_TIMESTAMP=0;
 
 $ENV{'PATH'} = '/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin'.($ENV{PATH}?':'.$ENV{PATH}:'');		# for ps , tar (gnu!)
@@ -1612,24 +1611,6 @@ sub send_tcp_cp {
 sub sync_cluster_pw {
 	my $st=Donald::FileInfo->lstat($CLUSTER_PW_FILE);
 
-	# upgrade : move cluster password file from /root to /etc
-
-	if (!$st && -e $OLD_CLUSTER_PW_FILE) {
-		warn "upgrading cluster password file location $OLD_CLUSTER_PW_FILE -> $CLUSTER_PW_FILE\n";
-		my $in=new IO::File $OLD_CLUSTER_PW_FILE,'<';
-		unless (defined $in) {warn "$OLD_CLUSTER_PW_FILE: $!\n";return undef;}
-		my $out=new IO::File $CLUSTER_PW_FILE,O_WRONLY|O_CREAT,0600;
-		unless (defined $out) {warn "$CLUSTER_PW_FILE: $!\n";return undef;}
-		my $data;
-		$in->read($data,1024);
-		$out->write($data);
-		$in->close;
-		$out->close;
-		$st=Donald::FileInfo->lstat($CLUSTER_PW_FILE);
-		defined $st or die "$CLUSTER_PW_FILE: $!\n";
-		unlink $OLD_CLUSTER_PW_FILE;
-	}
-
 	if ($st) {
 		if (!defined $CLUSTER_PW or $CLUSTER_PW_TIMESTAMP != $st->mtime) {
 			my $fh=new IO::File $CLUSTER_PW_FILE,'<';
@@ -1702,16 +1683,7 @@ our $PROG_MTIME;
 sub check_progfile_status {
 	defined $PROG_FILE or $PROG_FILE=$0;
 	my @f=lstat $PROG_FILE or return;
-	if (defined $PROG_MTIME) {
-		if ($f[9] != $PROG_MTIME) {
-			warn "progfile $PROG_FILE has changed - upgrade restart from version ".version_info()."\n";
-			exec $PROG_FILE,'--daemon',($options{'foreground'}?'--foreground':()),($options{'syslog'}?'--syslog':());
-		}
-	}
-	else {
-		$PROG_MTIME=$f[9];
-	}
-	My::Select::timeout(60,\&check_progfile_status);
+	$PROG_MTIME=$f[9];
 }
 
 sub version_info {	# '20090617-155314'
@@ -2047,12 +2019,7 @@ usage: $0 [options]
 
   --lsof=pattern
 
-  --kill       # try to kill a running server
-
   --daemon  # start a daemon
-    --kill    # try to kill previous server first
-    --foreground   # stay in foreground, log to stderr
-    --syslog  # log to syslog instead of stderr
 
   push files....   # push files over tcp
 
@@ -2061,12 +2028,9 @@ __EOF__
 use Getopt::Long;
 GetOptions
 (
-	'kill' =>   \$options{'kill'},
 	'daemon' => \$options{'daemon'},
 	'push=s' => \$options{'push'},
 	'exec=s' => \$options{'exec'},
-	'foreground' => \$options{'foreground'},
-	'syslog' => \$options{'syslog'},
 	'push-amd-tar' => \$options{'push_amd_tar'},
 	'send-restart' => \$options{'send-restart'},
 	'flush-gidcache' => \$options{'flush-gidcache'},
@@ -2111,28 +2075,13 @@ if (defined $options{'push'}) {
 	$donald_s=new My::Select::INET(Proto=>'udp') or die "$!\n";
 	udp_broadcast_message($donald_s,'reexport');
 } elsif (defined $options{'daemon'}) {
-	$options{'kill'} and Donald::Tools::kill_previous_server('clusterd') and sleep 2;
-
 	$SIG{PIPE}='IGNORE';
 
 	$donald_s=new My::Select::INET(Proto=>'udp',Broadcast=>1,LocalPort=>$UDP_PORT) or die "$!\n";
 	$donald_s->receive_data(\&udp_message,$donald_s);
 
-	unless ($options{'foreground'}) {
-		my $pid=fork;
-		defined $pid or die "$!\n";
-		$pid and exit 0;
-	}
-
-	if ($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');
-		open (STDERR,'>','/dev/null');
-		open (STDIN,'<','/dev/null');
-	}
+	openlog('clusterd','pid','daemon');
+	Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix');		# with 'native' we get EOLs in the logfile, option "noeol" doesn't work
 
 	check_progfile_status();
 	warn "server started - ".version_info()."\n";
diff --git a/clusterd/clusterd.service b/clusterd/clusterd.service
index 79f0beb..c5566ef 100644
--- a/clusterd/clusterd.service
+++ b/clusterd/clusterd.service
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 [Unit]
-Description=ClusterDonald
 Requires=network.target
 After=network.target
 
 [Service]
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/clusterd --daemon --foreground --kill --syslog
-StandardOutput=syslog
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/clusterd --daemon
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=10s