diff --git a/daemon/call.c b/daemon/call.c
index 8f10fdf1e..e92214d7b 100644
--- a/daemon/call.c
+++ b/daemon/call.c
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ retry:
 		for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
 			close(i);
 
-		if (!ilog_stderr) {
+		if (!rtpe_config.common.log_stderr) {
 			openlog("rtpengine/child", LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY, LOG_DAEMON);
 		}
 		ilog(LOG_INFO, "Initiating XMLRPC call for tag "STR_FORMAT"", STR_FMT(tag));
diff --git a/daemon/cli.c b/daemon/cli.c
index 2678add3a..1af68c888 100644
--- a/daemon/cli.c
+++ b/daemon/cli.c
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ fail:
 }
 
 static void cli_incoming_list_loglevel(str *instr, struct streambuf *replybuffer) {
-	streambuf_printf(replybuffer, "%i\n", g_atomic_int_get(&log_level));
+	streambuf_printf(replybuffer, "%i\n", get_log_level());
 }
 static void cli_incoming_set_loglevel(str *instr, struct streambuf *replybuffer) {
 	int nl;
@@ -828,6 +828,6 @@ static void cli_incoming_set_loglevel(str *instr, struct streambuf *replybuffer)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	g_atomic_int_set(&log_level, nl);
+	g_atomic_int_set(&rtpe_config.common.log_level, nl);
 	streambuf_printf(replybuffer,  "Success setting loglevel to %i\n", nl);
 }
diff --git a/daemon/main.c b/daemon/main.c
index b45404f4b..dc164b881 100644
--- a/daemon/main.c
+++ b/daemon/main.c
@@ -92,14 +92,14 @@ static void sighandler(gpointer x) {
 			rtpe_shutdown = 1;
 		else if (ret == SIGUSR1) {
 		        if (get_log_level() > 0) {
-				g_atomic_int_add(&log_level, -1);
+				g_atomic_int_add(&rtpe_config.common.log_level, -1);
 				ilog(get_log_level(), "Set log level to %d\n",
 						get_log_level());
 			}
 		}
 		else if (ret == SIGUSR2) {
 		        if (get_log_level() < 7) {
-				g_atomic_int_add(&log_level, 1);
+				g_atomic_int_add(&rtpe_config.common.log_level, 1);
 				ilog(get_log_level(), "Set log level to %d\n",
 						get_log_level());
 			}
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static void options(int *argc, char ***argv) {
 	};
 
 	config_load(argc, argv, e, " - next-generation media proxy",
-			"/etc/rtpengine/rtpengine.conf", "rtpengine");
+			"/etc/rtpengine/rtpengine.conf", "rtpengine", &rtpe_config.common);
 
 	if (!if_a)
 		die("Missing option --interface");
@@ -384,9 +384,6 @@ static void options(int *argc, char ***argv) {
 	if (rtpe_config.fmt > 1)
 		die("Invalid XMLRPC format");
 
-	if ((log_level < LOG_EMERG) || (log_level > LOG_DEBUG))
-	        die("Invalid log level (--log_level)");
-
 	if (log_facility_cdr_s) {
 		if (!parse_log_facility(log_facility_cdr_s, &_log_facility_cdr)) {
 			print_available_log_facilities();
@@ -479,8 +476,6 @@ static void init_everything() {
 	if (call_interfaces_init())
 		abort();
 	statistics_init();
-	if (call_init())
-		abort();
 }
 
 
@@ -510,6 +505,9 @@ no_kernel:
 
 	dtls_timer(rtpe_poller);
 
+	if (call_init())
+		abort();
+
         rwlock_init(&rtpe_config.config_lock);
 	if (rtpe_config.max_sessions < -1) {
 		rtpe_config.max_sessions = -1;
diff --git a/daemon/main.h b/daemon/main.h
index b939e9dc0..9cfd07f73 100644
--- a/daemon/main.h
+++ b/daemon/main.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "aux.h"
 #include <glib.h>
 #include "socket.h"
+#include "auxlib.h"
 
 enum xmlrpc_format {
 	XF_SEMS = 0,
@@ -14,6 +15,9 @@ enum xmlrpc_format {
 struct rtpengine_config {
 	/* everything below protected by config_lock */
 	rwlock_t		config_lock;
+
+	struct rtpengine_common_config common;
+
 	int			kernel_table;
 	int			max_sessions;
 	int			timeout;
diff --git a/daemon/redis.c b/daemon/redis.c
index 5eeecb5e7..8e2dd14bb 100644
--- a/daemon/redis.c
+++ b/daemon/redis.c
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ int redis_restore(struct redis *r) {
 	if (!r)
 		return 0;
 
-	log_level |= LOG_FLAG_RESTORE;
+	rtpe_config.common.log_level |= LOG_FLAG_RESTORE;
 
 	rlog(LOG_DEBUG, "Restoring calls from Redis...");
 
@@ -1637,7 +1637,7 @@ int redis_restore(struct redis *r) {
 	freeReplyObject(calls);
 
 err:
-	log_level &= ~LOG_FLAG_RESTORE;
+	rtpe_config.common.log_level &= ~LOG_FLAG_RESTORE;
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/auxlib.c b/lib/auxlib.c
index 8f24fb0fb..9c724176b 100644
--- a/lib/auxlib.c
+++ b/lib/auxlib.c
@@ -7,18 +7,15 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include "log.h"
+#include "loglib.h"
 
 
-static const char *config_file;
-static const char *config_section;
-static const char *pid_file;
-static const char *log_facility;
-static int foreground;
 static int version;
+struct rtpengine_common_config *rtpe_common_config_ptr;
 
 
 void daemonize(void) {
-	if (foreground)
+	if (rtpe_common_config_ptr->foreground)
 		return;
 	if (fork())
 		_exit(0);
@@ -32,10 +29,10 @@ void daemonize(void) {
 void wpidfile() {
 	FILE *fp;
 
-	if (!pid_file)
+	if (!rtpe_common_config_ptr->pidfile)
 		return;
 
-	fp = fopen(pid_file, "w");
+	fp = fopen(rtpe_common_config_ptr->pidfile, "w");
 	if (!fp) {
 		ilog(LOG_CRIT, "Failed to create PID file (%s), aborting startup", strerror(errno));
 		exit(-1);
@@ -54,22 +51,10 @@ static unsigned int options_length(const GOptionEntry *arr) {
 }
 
 
-static const GOptionEntry shared_options[] = {
-	{ "version",		'v', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,	&version,	"Print build time and exit",		NULL		},
-	{ "config-file",	0,   0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,	&config_file,	"Load config from this file",		"FILE"		},
-	{ "config-section",	0,   0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,	&config_section,"Config file section to use",		"STRING"	},
-	{ "log-facility",	0,   0,	G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,	&log_facility,	"Syslog facility to use for logging",	"daemon|local0|...|local7"},
-	{ "log-level",		'L', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_INT,	(void *)&log_level,"Mask log priorities above this level","INT"		},
-	{ "log-stderr",		'E', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,	&ilog_stderr,	"Log on stderr instead of syslog",	NULL		},
-	{ "pidfile",		'p', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME,	&pid_file,	"Write PID to file",			"FILE"		},
-	{ "foreground",		'f', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,	&foreground,	"Don't fork to background",		NULL		},
-	{ NULL, }
-};
-
 #define CONF_OPTION_GLUE(get_func, data_type, ...) 							\
 	{												\
 		data_type *varptr = e->arg_data;							\
-		data_type var = g_key_file_get_ ## get_func(kf, config_section, e->long_name,		\
+		data_type var = g_key_file_get_ ## get_func(kf, rtpe_common_config_ptr->config_section, e->long_name,		\
 			##__VA_ARGS__, &er);								\
 		if (er && g_error_matches(er, G_KEY_FILE_ERROR, G_KEY_FILE_ERROR_KEY_NOT_FOUND)) {	\
 			g_error_free(er);								\
@@ -83,7 +68,8 @@ static const GOptionEntry shared_options[] = {
 	}
 
 void config_load(int *argc, char ***argv, GOptionEntry *app_entries, const char *description,
-		const char *default_config, const char *default_section)
+		char *default_config, char *default_section,
+		struct rtpengine_common_config *cconfig)
 {
 	GOptionContext *c;
 	GError *er = NULL;
@@ -92,6 +78,28 @@ void config_load(int *argc, char ***argv, GOptionEntry *app_entries, const char
 	int saved_argc = *argc;
 	char **saved_argv = g_strdupv(*argv);
 
+	rtpe_common_config_ptr = cconfig;
+
+	// defaults
+#ifndef __DEBUG
+	rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_level = LOG_INFO;
+#else
+	rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_level = LOG_DEBUG;
+#endif
+
+	GOptionEntry shared_options[] = {
+		{ "version",		'v', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,	&version,	"Print build time and exit",		NULL		},
+		{ "config-file",	0,   0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,	&rtpe_common_config_ptr->config_file,	"Load config from this file",		"FILE"		},
+		{ "config-section",	0,   0, G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,	&rtpe_common_config_ptr->config_section,"Config file section to use",		"STRING"	},
+		{ "log-facility",	0,   0,	G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,	&rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_facility,	"Syslog facility to use for logging",	"daemon|local0|...|local7"},
+		{ "log-level",		'L', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_INT,	(void *)&rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_level,"Mask log priorities above this level","INT"		},
+		{ "log-stderr",		'E', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,	&rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_stderr,	"Log on stderr instead of syslog",	NULL		},
+		{ "pidfile",		'p', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME,	&rtpe_common_config_ptr->pidfile,	"Write PID to file",			"FILE"		},
+		{ "foreground",		'f', 0, G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,	&rtpe_common_config_ptr->foreground,	"Don't fork to background",		NULL		},
+		{ NULL, }
+	};
+
+
 	// prepend shared CLI options
 	unsigned int shared_len = options_length(shared_options);
 	unsigned int app_len = options_length(app_entries);
@@ -99,8 +107,8 @@ void config_load(int *argc, char ***argv, GOptionEntry *app_entries, const char
 	memcpy(entries, shared_options, sizeof(*entries) * shared_len);
 	memcpy(&entries[shared_len], app_entries, sizeof(*entries) * (app_len + 1));
 
-	if (!config_section)
-		config_section = default_section;
+	if (!rtpe_common_config_ptr->config_section)
+		rtpe_common_config_ptr->config_section = default_section;
 
 	c = g_option_context_new(description);
 	g_option_context_add_main_entries(c, entries, NULL);
@@ -109,8 +117,8 @@ void config_load(int *argc, char ***argv, GOptionEntry *app_entries, const char
 
 	// is there a config file to load?
 	use_config = default_config;
-	if (config_file) {
-		use_config = config_file;
+	if (rtpe_common_config_ptr->config_file) {
+		use_config = rtpe_common_config_ptr->config_file;
 		fatal = 1;
 	}
 
@@ -153,14 +161,17 @@ out:
 	}
 
 
-	if (log_facility) {
-		if (!parse_log_facility(log_facility, &ilog_facility)) {
+	if (rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_facility) {
+		if (!parse_log_facility(rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_facility, &ilog_facility)) {
 			print_available_log_facilities();
-			die ("Invalid log facility '%s' (--log-facility)", log_facility);
+			die ("Invalid log facility '%s' (--log-facility)", rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_facility);
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (ilog_stderr) {
+	if ((rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_level < LOG_EMERG) || (rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_level > LOG_DEBUG))
+	        die("Invalid log level (--log_level)");
+
+	if (rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_stderr) {
 		write_log = log_to_stderr;
 		max_log_line_length = 0;
 	}
diff --git a/lib/auxlib.h b/lib/auxlib.h
index 3e29c7223..eae9ef72f 100644
--- a/lib/auxlib.h
+++ b/lib/auxlib.h
@@ -3,10 +3,23 @@
 
 #include <glib.h>
 
+struct rtpengine_common_config {
+	char *config_file;
+	char *config_section;
+	char *log_facility;
+	volatile int log_level;
+	int log_stderr;
+	char *pidfile;
+	int foreground;
+};
+
+extern struct rtpengine_common_config *rtpe_common_config_ptr;
+
 void daemonize(void);
 void wpidfile(void);
 void config_load(int *argc, char ***argv, GOptionEntry *entries, const char *description,
-		const char *default_config, const char *default_section);
+		char *default_config, char *default_section,
+		struct rtpengine_common_config *);
 
 
 #endif
diff --git a/lib/loglib.c b/lib/loglib.c
index 2f80e4f41..2837567e9 100644
--- a/lib/loglib.c
+++ b/lib/loglib.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include "auxlib.h"
 
 
 struct log_limiter_entry {
@@ -22,14 +23,6 @@ typedef struct _fac_code {
 
 
 
-#ifndef __DEBUG
-volatile gint log_level = LOG_INFO;
-#else
-volatile gint log_level = LOG_DEBUG;
-#endif
-
-
-
 static write_log_t log_both;
 
 unsigned int max_log_line_length = 500;
@@ -73,7 +66,6 @@ static const char* const prio_str[] = {
 		"DEBUG"
 	};
 
-gboolean ilog_stderr = 0;
 int ilog_facility = LOG_DAEMON;
 
 
@@ -230,7 +222,7 @@ void log_init(const char *handle) {
 	__log_limiter = g_hash_table_new(log_limiter_entry_hash, log_limiter_entry_equal);
 	__log_limiter_strings = g_string_chunk_new(1024);
 
-	if (!ilog_stderr)
+	if (!rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_stderr)
 		openlog(handle, LOG_PID | LOG_NDELAY, ilog_facility);
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/loglib.h b/lib/loglib.h
index 72aeffd67..04ebbea7b 100644
--- a/lib/loglib.h
+++ b/lib/loglib.h
@@ -6,13 +6,11 @@
 #include <syslog.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include "compat.h"
+#include "auxlib.h"
 
 
-extern gboolean ilog_stderr;
 extern int ilog_facility;
 
-
-extern volatile gint log_level;
 extern unsigned int max_log_line_length;
 
 
@@ -46,7 +44,7 @@ void __ilog_np(int prio, const char *format, ...) __attribute__ ((format (printf
 
 
 INLINE int get_log_level(void) {
-	return g_atomic_int_get(&log_level);
+	return g_atomic_int_get(&rtpe_common_config_ptr->log_level);
 }
 
 
diff --git a/recording-daemon/main.c b/recording-daemon/main.c
index 4a18a1f26..55bfd610d 100644
--- a/recording-daemon/main.c
+++ b/recording-daemon/main.c
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ static GQueue threads = G_QUEUE_INIT; // only accessed from main thread
 
 volatile int shutdown_flag;
 
+struct rtpengine_common_config rtpe_common_config;
+
+
 
 static void signals(void) {
 	sigset_t ss;
@@ -186,7 +189,7 @@ static void options(int *argc, char ***argv) {
 	};
 
 	config_load(argc, argv, e, " - rtpengine recording daemon",
-			"/etc/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording.conf", "rtpengine-recording");
+			"/etc/rtpengine/rtpengine-recording.conf", "rtpengine-recording", &rtpe_common_config);
 
 	if (!strcmp(output_format, "none")) {
 		output_enabled = 0;
diff --git a/recording-daemon/main.h b/recording-daemon/main.h
index bf33b8309..f11b39105 100644
--- a/recording-daemon/main.h
+++ b/recording-daemon/main.h
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 #define _MAIN_H_
 
 
+#include "auxlib.h"
+
+
 extern int ktable;
 extern int num_threads;
 extern const char *spool_dir;
@@ -19,4 +22,7 @@ extern const char *forward_to;
 extern volatile int shutdown_flag;
 
 
+extern struct rtpengine_common_config rtpe_common_config;
+
+
 #endif