diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2001158b..de0d6517 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ ver. 0.8.11 (2013/XX/XXX) - loves-unittests
      and extra failure examples in sample logs
    * filter.d/apache-auth - added expressions for mod_authz, mod_auth and
      mod_auth_digest failures.
+   * filter.d/mysqld-auth.conf - mysql can use syslog
   Daniel Black & Georgiy Mernov & ftoppi & Мернов Георгий
    * filter.d/exim.conf -- regex hardening and extra failure examples in
      sample logs
diff --git a/config/filter.d/mysqld-auth.conf b/config/filter.d/mysqld-auth.conf
index 197c8232..64dd16ed 100644
--- a/config/filter.d/mysqld-auth.conf
+++ b/config/filter.d/mysqld-auth.conf
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ before = common.conf
 
 [Definition]
 
-#_daemon = mysqld
+_daemon = mysqld
 
 # Option:  failregex
 # Notes.:  regex to match the password failures messages in the logfile. The
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ before = common.conf
 #          (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>[\w\-.^_]+)
 # Values:  TEXT
 # 130322 11:26:54 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'127.0.0.1' (using password: YES)
-failregex = Access denied for user '\w+'@'<HOST>' (to database '[^']*'|\(using password: (YES|NO)\))*\s*$
+#
+failregex = ^%(__prefix_line)s(\d{6} \s?\d{1,2}:\d{2}:\d{2} )?\[Warning\] Access denied for user '\w+'@'<HOST>' (to database '[^']*'|\(using password: (YES|NO)\))*\s*$
 
 # Option:  ignoreregex
 # Notes.:  regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.
diff --git a/testcases/files/logs/mysqld-auth b/testcases/files/logs/mysqld-auth
index 757ecb66..ce35d740 100644
--- a/testcases/files/logs/mysqld-auth
+++ b/testcases/files/logs/mysqld-auth
@@ -10,3 +10,8 @@
 130324 19:01:39 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'61.147.108.35' (using password: NO)
 # failJSON: { "time": "2013-03-24T19:01:40", "match": true , "host": "61.147.108.35" }
 130324 19:01:40 [Warning] Access denied for user 'root'@'61.147.108.35' (using password: YES)
+# failJSON: { "time": "2013-09-16T21:30:26", "match": true , "host": "74.207.241.159" }
+Sep 16 21:30:26 catinthehat mysqld: 130916 21:30:26 [Warning] Access denied for user 'hacker'@'74.207.241.159' (using password: YES)
+# failJSON: { "time": "2013-09-16T21:30:32", "match": true , "host": "74.207.241.159" }
+Sep 16 21:30:32 catinthehat mysqld: 130916 21:30:32 [Warning] Access denied for user 'hacker'@'74.207.241.159' (using password: NO)
+