SpamAssassin with Syslog-NG startup error with Syslog.pm

[Troy]

I'm using SpamAssassin 3.1.1 with RELENG_6 and upon startup I get the following error:

[767] error: no connection to syslog available [767] error: _- unix dgram
connect: Connection refused at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin/Logger/Syslog.pm
line 79

I believe this is because I'm using syslog-ng vs. the standard syslog
built in with FreeBSD 6.0.  

I tried to make sure the syslog-ng daemon load before SpamAssassin by
changing the name of the startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d but to no
avail...I still get that error upon startup.

Once the system starts up - SpamAssassin is sending syslogs properly but
I'd really like to solve the error.

Thoughts?

-Troy