diff --git a/glide.lock b/glide.lock
index a74b30ac..f4480be1 100644
--- a/glide.lock
+++ b/glide.lock
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 hash: 976decfaf173d97d2e4572399490637aa12e217312a7d8b28813780a738e1151
-updated: 2017-08-15T20:07:19.2012575-05:00
+updated: 2017-08-24T17:28:45.8117156-05:00
 imports:
 - name: github.com/btcsuite/btclog
-  version: 96c2a91a67da03552a5e6554fe3ccbfbc7f860be
+  version: 84c8d2346e9fc8c7b947e243b9c24e6df9fd206a
 - name: github.com/btcsuite/btcutil
   version: 501929d3d046174c3d39f0ea54ece471aa17238c
   subpackages:
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ imports:
 - name: github.com/jessevdk/go-flags
   version: 1679536dcc895411a9f5848d9a0250be7856448c
 - name: github.com/jrick/logrotate
-  version: 4ed05ed86ef17d10ff99cce77481e0fcf6f2c7b0
+  version: a93b200c26cbae3bb09dd0dc2c7c7fe1468a034a
   subpackages:
   - rotator
 - name: golang.org/x/crypto
diff --git a/log.go b/log.go
index 437bfeca..c9782d2c 100644
--- a/log.go
+++ b/log.go
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ type logWriter struct{}
 
 func (logWriter) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
 	os.Stdout.Write(p)
-	logRotatorPipe.Write(p)
+	logRotator.Write(p)
 	return len(p), nil
 }
 
@@ -53,10 +52,6 @@ var (
 	// application shutdown.
 	logRotator *rotator.Rotator
 
-	// logRotatorPipe is the write-end pipe for writing to the log rotator.  It
-	// is written to by the Write method of the logWriter type.
-	logRotatorPipe *io.PipeWriter
-
 	adxrLog = backendLog.Logger("ADXR")
 	amgrLog = backendLog.Logger("AMGR")
 	cmgrLog = backendLog.Logger("CMGR")
@@ -117,17 +112,13 @@ func initLogRotator(logFile string) {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to create log directory: %v\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
-	pr, pw := io.Pipe()
-	r, err := rotator.New(pr, logFile, 10*1024, false, 3)
+	r, err := rotator.New(logFile, 10*1024, false, 3)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "failed to create file rotator: %v\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 
-	go r.Run()
-
 	logRotator = r
-	logRotatorPipe = pw
 }
 
 // setLogLevel sets the logging level for provided subsystem.  Invalid