diff --git a/base/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf b/base/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
index c1dddee82..975c8fbef 100644
--- a/base/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
+++ b/base/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 #
 # Filename: package/.../syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
-# Copyright (C) 2011 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2011 - 2012 The OpenSDE Project
 # Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 The T2 SDE Project
 #
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
@@ -13,9 +13,6 @@
 # GNU General Public License can be found in the file COPYING.
 # --- SDE-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
 
-# run autoreconf because we patch configure.in
-hook_add preconf 9 'autoreconf -ivf'
-
 # checking if we should linking glib and eventlog statically or dynamically
 if [ "$SDECFG_STATIC" == "1" ]; then
 	var_append extraconfopt " " "--enable-static-linking"