diff --git a/xCAT/postscripts/enabledebug b/xCAT/postscripts/enabledebug
index 0de5a7ff6..c02633af2 100755
--- a/xCAT/postscripts/enabledebug
+++ b/xCAT/postscripts/enabledebug
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #egan@us.ibm.com
 #(C)IBM Corp
 #
-echo "$0: the OS version is $OSVER" | logger -t xcat
+echo "$0: the OS version is $OSVER" | logger -t xcat -p local4.info
 case $OSVER in
 	sles*|suse*|ul*)
 		perl -pi -e 's/^KERNEL_LOGLEVEL=1/KERNEL_LOGLEVEL=8/' /etc/sysconfig/syslog