diff --git a/src/Event.cc b/src/Event.cc
index de26955d56..f382163108 100644
--- a/src/Event.cc
+++ b/src/Event.cc
@@ -207,4 +207,12 @@ void EventMgr::InitPostScript()
 		reporter->FatalError("Failed to register event manager FD with iosource_mgr");
 	}
 
+void EventMgr::InitPostFork()
+	{
+	// Re-initialize the flare, closing and re-opening the underlying
+	// pipe FDs. This is needed so that each Zeek process in a supervisor
+	// setup has its own pipe instead of them all sharing a single pipe.
+	queue_flare = zeek::detail::Flare{};
+	}
+
 	} // namespace zeek
diff --git a/src/Event.h b/src/Event.h
index b746635007..75929817c1 100644
--- a/src/Event.h
+++ b/src/Event.h
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ public:
 	const char* Tag() override { return "EventManager"; }
 	void InitPostScript();
 
+	// Initialization to be done after a fork() happened.
+	void InitPostFork();
+
 	uint64_t num_events_queued = 0;
 	uint64_t num_events_dispatched = 0;
 
diff --git a/src/zeek-setup.cc b/src/zeek-setup.cc
index 41c8479f2a..23bc8033af 100644
--- a/src/zeek-setup.cc
+++ b/src/zeek-setup.cc
@@ -554,8 +554,14 @@ SetupResult setup(int argc, char** argv, Options* zopts)
 	auto stem = Supervisor::CreateStem(options.supervisor_mode);
 
 	if ( Supervisor::ThisNode() )
+		{
+		// If we get here, we're a supervised node that just returned
+		// from CreateStem() after being forked from the stem.
 		Supervisor::ThisNode()->Init(&options);
 
+		event_mgr.InitPostFork();
+		}
+
 	script_coverage_mgr.ReadStats();
 
 	auto dns_type = options.dns_mode;