diff --git a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/CONSsn.pm b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/CONSsn.pm
index bd36fe3df..3665c0b80 100644
--- a/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/CONSsn.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server-2.0/lib/xcat/plugins/CONSsn.pm
@@ -136,16 +136,27 @@ sub setup_CONS
         } elsif (! -e $ca_file2) {
 	    print "conserver cannot be started because the file $ca_file2 cannot be found\n";
         } else {
-          my $cmd = "/etc/rc.d/init.d/conserver restart";
+          my $cmd = "/etc/rc.d/init.d/conserver stop";
           my @out = xCAT::Utils->runcmd($cmd, 0);
           if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0)
           {    # error
-            xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "Error starting Conserver");
-            return 1;
+            xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "Error stopping conserver:".join("\n", @out));
           } else {	# Zero rc, but with the service cmds that does not mean they succeeded
           	my $output = join("\n", @out);
           	if (length($output)) { print "\n$output\n"; }
-	    	else { print "\nconserver started\n"; }
+	    	else { print "\nconserver stopped\n"; }
+          }
+       
+          $cmd = "/etc/rc.d/init.d/conserver start";
+          @out = xCAT::Utils->runcmd($cmd, 0);
+          if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0)
+          {    # error
+            xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "Error starting conserver:".join("\n", @out));
+            return 1;
+          } else {      # Zero rc, but with the service cmds that does not mean they succeeded
+                my $output = join("\n", @out);
+                if (length($output)) { print "\n$output\n"; }
+                else { print "\nconserver started\n"; }
           }
        }
     }
diff --git a/xCAT/postscripts/syslog b/xCAT/postscripts/syslog
index 44c984822..0e1a36644 100755
--- a/xCAT/postscripts/syslog
+++ b/xCAT/postscripts/syslog
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ if [[ $OSTYPE = linux* ]]; then
       init="/etc/init.d/rsyslog"
     fi
   else 
-    if [[ $$OSVER = sles* ]] || [[ $$OSVER = suse* ]] || [[ -f /etc/SuSE-release ]]; then
+    if [[ $OSVER = sles* ]] || [[ $OSVER = suse* ]] || [[ -f /etc/SuSE-release ]]; then
       #find out which syslog is used for SLES, syslog or syslog-ng
       result=`grep "^SYSLOG_DAEMON=" $sysconfig 2>&1`
       if [[ $result = *syslog-ng* ]]; then