diff --git a/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/Main.java b/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/Main.java
index f7fada3df27..c43d95c1b85 100644
--- a/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/Main.java
+++ b/jetty-start/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/start/Main.java
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileFilter;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
@@ -163,9 +165,11 @@ public class Main
                 }
 
                 // Special internal indicator that jetty was started by the jetty.sh Daemon
-                if ("--fromDaemon".equals(arg))
+                if ("--daemon".equals(arg))
                 {
-                    System.err.println("WARN: Ignored deprecated --fromDaemon");
+                    PrintStream logger = new PrintStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(System.getProperty("jetty.log","."),"start.log")));
+                    System.setOut(logger);
+                    System.setErr(logger);
                     continue;
                 }
 
diff --git a/jetty-start/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/start/usage.txt b/jetty-start/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/start/usage.txt
index 11d76b07d4b..ae54ba7e43c 100644
--- a/jetty-start/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/start/usage.txt
+++ b/jetty-start/src/main/resources/org/eclipse/jetty/start/usage.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Command Line Options:
                      
   --stop           Stop the running Jetty instance.
   
+  --daemon         Start in daemon mode with stderr and stdout 
+                   redirected to ${jetty.log}/start.log
+  
   --config=<file>  Specify an alternate start.config file.  
                    The default is the start.config file inside
                    the start.jar. The default can also be specified