diff --git a/projects/logging/pkg/init/etc/init.d/containers b/projects/logging/pkg/init/etc/init.d/containers
index 982a1bafc..fefaf9d25 100755
--- a/projects/logging/pkg/init/etc/init.d/containers
+++ b/projects/logging/pkg/init/etc/init.d/containers
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+# start memlogd container
+
+/usr/bin/startmemlogd
+
 # start onboot containers, run to completion
 
 if [ -d /containers/onboot ]
@@ -9,7 +13,7 @@ then
 		base="$(basename $f)"
 		/bin/mount --bind "$f/rootfs" "$f/rootfs"
 		mount -o remount,rw "$f/rootfs"
-		/usr/bin/runc run --bundle "$f" "$(basename $f)"
+		/usr/bin/logwrite -n "$(basename $f)" /usr/bin/runc run --bundle "$f" "$(basename $f)"
 		printf " - $base\n"
 	done
 fi
@@ -24,7 +28,7 @@ then
 		/bin/mount --bind "$f/rootfs" "$f/rootfs"
 		mount -o remount,rw "$f/rootfs"
 		log="/var/log/$base.log"
-		ctr run --runtime-config "$f/config.json" --rootfs "$f/rootfs" --id "$(basename $f)" </dev/null 2>$log >$log &
+		/usr/bin/logwrite -n "$(basename $f)" ctr run --runtime-config "$f/config.json" --rootfs "$f/rootfs" --id "$(basename $f)" </dev/null 2>$log >$log &
 		printf " - $base\n"
 	done
 fi