diff --git a/tools/build/onos-package b/tools/build/onos-package
index 3279445..5566e60 100755
--- a/tools/build/onos-package
+++ b/tools/build/onos-package
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@
     [ -f $KARAF_TAR ] && tar zxf $KARAF_TAR && rm -rf $ONOS_STAGE/$KARAF_DIST/demos
     mkdir bin
 
+    # Patch the log-file size in place to increase it to 10 MB
+    perl -pi.old -e "s/maxFileSize=1MB/maxFileSize=10MB/g" \
+        $ONOS_STAGE/$KARAF_DIST/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
+
     # Stage the ONOS admin scripts and patch in Karaf service wrapper extras
     cp -r $ONOS_ROOT/tools/package/bin .
     cp -r $ONOS_ROOT/tools/package/init $ONOS_STAGE/init
diff --git a/tools/package/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg b/tools/package/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 2133c38..0000000
--- a/tools/package/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#
-#    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-#    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-#    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-#    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-#    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-#    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-#    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-#    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-#    limitations under the License.
-#
-################################################################################
-
-# Root logger
-log4j.rootLogger=INFO, out, osgi:*
-log4j.throwableRenderer=org.apache.log4j.OsgiThrowableRenderer
-
-# CONSOLE appender not used by default
-log4j.appender.stdout=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
-log4j.appender.stdout.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.stdout.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %-5.5p | %-16.16t | %-32.32c{1} | %X{bundle.id} - %X{bundle.name} - %X{bundle.version} | %m%n
-
-# File appender
-log4j.appender.out=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
-log4j.appender.out.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.out.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %-5.5p | %-16.16t | %-32.32c{1} | %X{bundle.id} - %X{bundle.name} - %X{bundle.version} | %m%n
-log4j.appender.out.file=${karaf.data}/log/karaf.log
-log4j.appender.out.append=true
-log4j.appender.out.maxFileSize=10MB
-log4j.appender.out.maxBackupIndex=10
-
-# Sift appender
-log4j.appender.sift=org.apache.log4j.sift.MDCSiftingAppender
-log4j.appender.sift.key=bundle.name
-log4j.appender.sift.default=karaf
-log4j.appender.sift.appender=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender
-log4j.appender.sift.appender.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
-log4j.appender.sift.appender.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} | %-5.5p | %-16.16t | %-32.32c{1} | %m%n
-log4j.appender.sift.appender.file=${karaf.data}/log/$\\{bundle.name\\}.log
-log4j.appender.sift.appender.append=true
-