diff --git a/image/runit/syslog-ng b/image/runit/syslog-ng
index f450b4b..0b5058a 100755
--- a/image/runit/syslog-ng
+++ b/image/runit/syslog-ng
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
 
+# 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,
+# then we remove it.
+if [ ! -S /dev/log ]; then rm -f /dev/log; fi
+
 SYSLOGNG_OPTS=""
 
 [ -r /etc/default/syslog-ng ] && . /etc/default/syslog-ng