diff --git a/obfsproxy/common/log.py b/obfsproxy/common/log.py
index bb30296..79193d2 100644
--- a/obfsproxy/common/log.py
+++ b/obfsproxy/common/log.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """obfsproxy logging code"""
 import logging
+import logging.handlers
 import sys
 
 from twisted.python import log
@@ -50,6 +51,18 @@ class ObfsLogger(object):
 
         self.obfslogger.addHandler(log_handler)
 
+    def set_syslog(self, progname):
+        """Set up our logger so that it starts logging to syslog instead."""
+
+        # remove the default handler, and add the SysLogHandler:
+        self.obfslogger.removeHandler(self.default_handler)
+
+        log_handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log')
+        formatter = logging.Formatter(progname + "[%(process)d]: %(message)s")
+        log_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+
+        self.obfslogger.addHandler(log_handler)
+
 
     def set_log_severity(self, sev_string):
         """Update our minimum logging severity to 'sev_string'."""
diff --git a/obfsproxy/pyobfsproxy.py b/obfsproxy/pyobfsproxy.py
index 4a2faf6..eaf8a44 100755
--- a/obfsproxy/pyobfsproxy.py
+++ b/obfsproxy/pyobfsproxy.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ def set_up_cli_parsing():
 
     parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='version', version=__version__)
     parser.add_argument('--log-file', help='set logfile')
+    parser.add_argument('--syslog', metavar='PROGNAME', help='use syslog')
     parser.add_argument('--log-min-severity',
                         choices=['error', 'warning', 'info', 'debug'],
                         help='set minimum logging severity (default: %(default)s)')
@@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ def consider_cli_args(args):
 
     if args.log_file:
         log.set_log_file(args.log_file)
+    elif args.syslog:
+        log.set_syslog(args.syslog)
     if args.log_min_severity:
         log.set_log_severity(args.log_min_severity)
     if args.no_log: