diff --git a/image/services/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.init b/image/services/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.init
index 04f526b..8a33b78 100755
--- a/image/services/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.init
+++ b/image/services/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.init
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-set -e
+set -em
 
 # If /dev/log is either a named pipe or it was placed there accidentally,
 # e.g. because of the issue documented at https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/pull/25,