diff --git a/bin/linspector b/bin/linspector
index f45626b..6423b4f 100755
--- a/bin/linspector
+++ b/bin/linspector
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger('linspector')
 
 # i currently only increase the 3rd number because the goal is that 0.20.* will become the first
 # stable version.
-__version__ = '0.19.34.dev1'
+__version__ = '0.19.35.dev1'
 __author__ = 'Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>'
 
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def main():
         configuration = Configuration(args.configuration_path, environment, log)
         logger.debug('configuration dump: ' + configuration.dump_to_ini())
     except Exception as err:
-        logger.critical('[linspector] configuration error: {0}'.format(err))
+        log('critical', '[linspector] configuration error: {0}'.format(err))
         sys.exit(1)
 
     if configuration.get_option('linspector', 'log_file'):
@@ -153,13 +153,13 @@ def main():
     try:
         monitors = Monitors(configuration, environment, log, notifications, services, tasks)
     except Exception as err:
-        logger.warning('[linspector] monitor initialization error: {0}'.format(err))
+        log('warning', '[linspector] monitor initialization error: {0}'.format(err))
 
     try:
         linspector = Linspector(configuration, environment, log, monitors, plugins, scheduler)
         #linspector.print_debug()
     except Exception as err:
-        logger.critical('[linspector] core initialization error: {0}'.format(err))
+        log('critical', '[linspector] core initialization error: {0}'.format(err))
         sys.exit(1)
 
     # daemon initialization
@@ -169,20 +169,23 @@ def main():
             linspectord = Linspectord(configuration, environment, linspector)
             # do handling of restart, start and stop commands but for now "start" is enough... ;)
             if args.kill:
+                log('info', '[linspector] stopping daemon.')
                 linspectord.stop()
             elif args.restart:
+                log('info', '[linspector] restarting daemon.')
                 linspectord.restart()
             else:
+                log('info', '[linspector] starting daemon.')
                 linspectord.start()
         except Exception as err:
-            logger.critical('[linspector] daemon error: {0}'.format(err))
+            log('critical', '[linspector] daemon error: {0}'.format(err))
             sys.exit(1)
     else:
         try:
             while True:
                 pass
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
-            logger.info('[linspector] program terminated by user!')
+            log('info', '[linspector] program terminated by user!')
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
diff --git a/etc/linspector.conf b/etc/linspector.conf
index 0f5cc7d..400d846 100644
--- a/etc/linspector.conf
+++ b/etc/linspector.conf
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ log_level= debug
 log_file = ~/code/linspector/linspector/log/linspector.log
 ; number of log files to be kept. i recommend to use the lowest sensible value for keeping performance high. so set
 ; the size of the log file higher to increase the log history.
-log_file_count = 25
+log_file_count = 5
 ; log file size in megabytes as float.
 ;log_file_size = 1
 ; log file size in bytes as int. you can set to bytes if you want to set a value lower then 1 megabyte. but it will