diff --git a/winsup/cygserver/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygserver/ChangeLog
index 7fcee976e..0e4eee837 100644
--- a/winsup/cygserver/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygserver/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2005-11-10  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* bsd_log.cc (_vpanic): LOG_EMERG is overkill, use LOG_CRIT.
+
 2005-08-08  Christopher Faylor  <cgf@timesys.com>
 
 	* cygserver.cc (main): Call wincap.init() earlier to avoid a NULL
diff --git a/winsup/cygserver/bsd_log.cc b/winsup/cygserver/bsd_log.cc
index 4b0ff7467..583b90557 100644
--- a/winsup/cygserver/bsd_log.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygserver/bsd_log.cc
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ _log (const char *file, int line, int level, const char *fmt, ...)
 void
 _vpanic (const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
 {
-  _vlog (file, line, LOG_EMERG, fmt, ap);
+  _vlog (file, line, LOG_CRIT, fmt, ap);
   exit (1);
 }