diff --git a/etc/inc/system.inc b/etc/inc/system.inc
index f92f499480..421abad1e8 100644
--- a/etc/inc/system.inc
+++ b/etc/inc/system.inc
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ function system_syslogd_start() {
 	}
 	
 	if (isset($syslogcfg)) {
-		$separatelogfacilities = array('ntp','ntpd','ntpdate','racoon','openvpn','pptps','poes','l2tps','relayd','hostapd','dnsmasq','filterdns','unbound','dhcpd','dhcrelay','dhclient','apinger','radvd','routed','olsrd','zebra','ospfd','bgpd','miniupnpd');
+		$separatelogfacilities = array('ntp','ntpd','ntpdate','charon','openvpn','pptps','poes','l2tps','relayd','hostapd','dnsmasq','filterdns','unbound','dhcpd','dhcrelay','dhclient','apinger','radvd','routed','olsrd','zebra','ospfd','bgpd','miniupnpd');
 		$syslogconf = "";
 		if($config['installedpackages']['package']) {
 			foreach($config['installedpackages']['package'] as $package) {
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ function system_syslogd_start() {
 		if (!isset($syslogcfg['disablelocallogging'])) 
 			$syslogconf .= "*.*								{$log_directive}{$g['varlog_path']}/l2tps.log\n";
 
-		$syslogconf .= "!racoon\n";
+		$syslogconf .= "!charon\n";
 		if (!isset($syslogcfg['disablelocallogging'])) 
 			$syslogconf .= "*.*								{$log_directive}{$g['varlog_path']}/ipsec.log\n";
 		if (isset($syslogcfg['vpn']))
diff --git a/etc/inc/vpn.inc b/etc/inc/vpn.inc
index 966abb12b1..8b5354c656 100644
--- a/etc/inc/vpn.inc
+++ b/etc/inc/vpn.inc
@@ -255,6 +255,20 @@ charon {
         # number of worker threads in charon
         threads = 16
 
+	# And two loggers using syslog. The subsections define the facility to log
+	# to, currently one of: daemon, auth.
+	syslog {
+
+		identifier = charon
+		# default level to the LOG_DAEMON facility
+		daemon {
+		}
+		# very minimalistic IKE auditing logs to LOG_AUTHPRIV
+		auth {
+		    default = -1
+		    ike = 1
+		}
+	}
 EOD;
 
 		if (is_array($a_client) && isset($a_client['enable']) && !empty($a_client['net_list']))
@@ -811,9 +825,11 @@ EOD;
 	/* generate IPsec policies */
 	$natfilterrules = false;
 	/* mange process */
-	if (is_process_running("charon")) {
-		sleep("0.1");
-		mwexec("/usr/local/sbin/ipsec reloadall", false);
+	if (isvalidpid("{$g['varrun_path']/charon.pid")) {
+		/* Read secrets */
+		mwexec("/usr/local/sbin/ipsec rereadall", false);
+		/* Update configuration changes */
+		mwexec("/usr/local/sbin/ipsec update", false);
 	} else {
 		/* start racoon */
 		$ipsecdebug = isset($config['ipsec']['racoondebug']) ? "-d -v" : "";