diff --git a/opal/util/output.c b/opal/util/output.c
index b17ce05779d..9238a2364dc 100644
--- a/opal/util/output.c
+++ b/opal/util/output.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  *                         reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2015      Research Organization for Information Science
  *                         and Technology (RIST). All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2017      IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
  * $COPYRIGHT$
  *
  * Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -682,6 +683,18 @@ static int do_open(int output_id, opal_output_stream_t * lds)
         info[i].ldi_file_num_lines_lost = 0;
     }
 
+    /* Special case: output_id == 0 == verbose_stream
+     * This is the verbose stream, so update the internal 'verbose_stream'
+     * to match the parameters set in the info[i]
+     */
+    if( verbose_stream == i ) {
+        verbose.lds_want_syslog     = info[i].ldi_syslog;
+        verbose.lds_syslog_priority = info[i].ldi_syslog_priority;
+        verbose.lds_syslog_ident    = info[i].ldi_syslog_ident;
+        verbose.lds_want_stdout     = info[i].ldi_stdout;
+        verbose.lds_want_stderr     = info[i].ldi_stderr;
+    }
+
     /* Don't open a file in the session directory now -- do that lazily
      * so that if there's no output, we don't have an empty file */