diff --git a/image/runit/syslog-ng b/image/runit/syslog-ng
index 433e1b5..7045d26 100755
--- a/image/runit/syslog-ng
+++ b/image/runit/syslog-ng
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ set -e
 # 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
+if [ ! -S /var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.ctl ]; then rm -f /var/lib/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.ctl; fi
 
 SYSLOGNG_OPTS=""