diff --git a/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.in-r2 b/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.in-r2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..925d3b661e56a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.in-r2
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+@version: @SYSLOGNG_VERSION@
+#
+# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux
+
+# https://bugs.gentoo.org/426814
+@include "scl.conf"
+
+options {
+	threaded(yes);
+	chain_hostnames(no);
+
+	# The default action of syslog-ng is to log a STATS line
+	# to the file every 10 minutes.  That's pretty ugly after a while.
+	# Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
+	# how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
+	stats(freq(43200));
+};
+
+source src { system(); internal(); };
+
+destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
+
+# By default messages are logged to tty12...
+destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
+# ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
+# you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
+# and uncomment the line below.
+#destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };
+
+log { source(src); destination(messages); };
+log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
diff --git a/app-admin/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-4.9.0.ebuild b/app-admin/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-4.9.0.ebuild
index 65eb877ad2548..f7d2334d5b558 100644
--- a/app-admin/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-4.9.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-4.9.0.ebuild
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 	done
 
 	for f in syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.hardened.in-r1 \
-			syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.in-r1; do
+			syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.in-r2; do
 		sed -e "s/@SYSLOGNG_VERSION@/$(ver_cut 1-2)/g" "${FILESDIR}/${f}" > "${T}/${f/.in-r1/}" || die
 	done