diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm
index 6fabfd23c..8cd54fb9b 100644
--- a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ sub preprocess_request {
       if ($ntab) {
          foreach (@{$ntab->getAllEntries()}) {
             if ($_->{dynamicrange} and not $_->{dhcpserver}) {
-               $callback->({error=>["In a hierachy, network entries with a dynamic range must be explicit in the dhcpserver field"],errorcode=>[1]});
+               $callback->({error=>["Hierarchy requested, therefore networks.dhcpserver must be set for net=".$_->{net}.""],errorcode=>[1]});
                return [];
             }
          }
diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd b/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd
index 40e2bb5aa..7869dcca4 100755
--- a/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/sbin/xcatd
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER='XML::Parser';
 use xCAT::Table;
 use Data::Dumper;
 use Getopt::Long;
-use Sys::Syslog;
+use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock);
+setlogsock([qw(native,tcp,udp,unix,stream)]);
 use xCAT::NotifHandler;
 use xCAT_monitoring::monitorctrl;
 
@@ -340,6 +341,13 @@ sub scan_plugins {
   }
 }
 scan_plugins;
+eval {
+   syslog("local4|info","xCATd: service starting");
+};
+if ($@) {
+   print "ERROR: $@";
+   exit;
+}
 unless ($foreground) {
    daemonize;
 }