diff --git a/ddclient.changes b/ddclient.changes
index 778f822..4e9f36b 100644
--- a/ddclient.changes
+++ b/ddclient.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May 15 07:58:26 UTC 2013 - seife+obs@b1-systems.com
+
+- fix init script: start ddclient with "/usr/bin/perl ddclient",
+  otherwise startproc will falsely report that starting failed.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 24 21:30:01 UTC 2012 - chris@computersalat.de
 
diff --git a/ddclient.spec b/ddclient.spec
index 000cb20..c59494f 100644
--- a/ddclient.spec
+++ b/ddclient.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package ddclient
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2012 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2013 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
diff --git a/rc.ddclient b/rc.ddclient
index a17ffd0..8115ed9 100644
--- a/rc.ddclient
+++ b/rc.ddclient
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ rc_reset
 case "$1" in
   start)
 	echo -n "Starting ddclient daemon :"
-	/sbin/startproc "$DDCLIENT_BIN" -daemon $dd_intervall "$dd_use" $DDCLIENT_OPTIONS -pid /var/run/ddclient.pid
+	# startproc does check the name of the binary, and this is "perl" in this case,
+	# so better start it this way or systemd will not know it is running
+	/sbin/startproc /usr/bin/perl "$DDCLIENT_BIN" -daemon $dd_intervall "$dd_use" $DDCLIENT_OPTIONS -pid /var/run/ddclient.pid
 
 	# remember status and be verbose
 	rc_status -v