diff --git a/src/etc/rc.syshook.d/start/21-syslog-ng b/src/etc/rc.syshook.d/start/21-syslog-ng
deleted file mode 100755
index ccc7070c1..000000000
--- a/src/etc/rc.syshook.d/start/21-syslog-ng
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#
-# In some cases syslog-ng seems to be initialized partially, dropping some
-# messages on the floor. Forcing a restart at the end of the boot procedure
-# seems to fix that.
-#
-/usr/local/etc/rc.d/syslog-ng restart
diff --git a/src/etc/rc.syshook.d/start/25-syslog b/src/etc/rc.syshook.d/start/25-syslog
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..63a930619
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/etc/rc.syshook.d/start/25-syslog
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Restart syslog here to make use of dynamic addressing which might
+# have been missing during rc.bootup runtime due to blocking dynamic
+# backend scripts.
+
+configctl -dq syslog restart