diff --git a/src/sentrypeer.c b/src/sentrypeer.c
index 63040dc..fc6d10d 100644
--- a/src/sentrypeer.c
+++ b/src/sentrypeer.c
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <syslog.h>     // for syslog()
+
 
 // Produced by autoconf and cmake (manually by me)
 #include "config.h"
@@ -14,16 +16,21 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	struct sentrypeer_config config;
 
+        openlog("sentrypeer", LOG_PID, LOG_USER);
+
 	if (process_cli(&config, argc, argv) != EXIT_SUCCESS) {
+                syslog(LOG_ERR, "Could not parse options\n");
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
 	if (config.debug_mode || config.verbose_mode) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Starting %s...\n", PACKAGE_NAME);
+                syslog(LOG_ERR, "Starting %s...\n", PACKAGE_NAME);
 	}
 
 	if (sip_daemon_init(&config) == EXIT_FAILURE) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to start SIP server..\n");
+                syslog(LOG_ERR, "Failed to start SIP server..\n");
 		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}