diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 813695c..f27b5bb 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.9.4
+
+ * Fixed syslog-ng startup problem.
+
 ## 0.9.3 (release date: 2014-01-31)
 
  * It looks like Docker changed their Ubuntu 12.04 base image, thereby breaking our Dockerfile. This has been fixed.
diff --git a/image/system_services.sh b/image/system_services.sh
index 428469d..913990c 100755
--- a/image/system_services.sh
+++ b/image/system_services.sh
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ $minimal_apt_get_install runit
 $minimal_apt_get_install syslog-ng-core
 mkdir /etc/service/syslog-ng
 cp /build/runit/syslog-ng /etc/service/syslog-ng/run
+mkdir -p /var/lib/syslog-ng
 
 ## Install the SSH server.
 $minimal_apt_get_install openssh-server