diff --git a/nginx.changes b/nginx.changes
index f97252c..2ed14ad 100644
--- a/nginx.changes
+++ b/nginx.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jun  2 11:55:19 UTC 2016 - mrueckert@suse.de
+
+- in the sysvinit script use the pid file in /var/run
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jun  1 12:33:55 UTC 2016 - mrueckert@suse.de
 
diff --git a/nginx.init b/nginx.init
index b2f13cf..e788194 100644
--- a/nginx.init
+++ b/nginx.init
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ NGINX_BIN=/usr/sbin/nginx
 test -x $NGINX_BIN || { echo "$NGINX_BIN not installed"; 
 	if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then exit 0;
 	else exit 5; fi; }
-NGINX_PID=/run/nginx.pid
+NGINX_PID=/var/run/nginx.pid
 
 # Check for existence of needed config file and read it
 #NGINX_CONFIG=/etc/sysconfig/nginx
diff --git a/nginx.spec b/nginx.spec
index bf76fb9..a6759ff 100644
--- a/nginx.spec
+++ b/nginx.spec
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ It has been running on many heavily loaded Russian sites for more than two years
 %patch4 -p1
 
 perl -pi -e 's|\r\n|\n|g' contrib/geo2nginx.pl
+# we just use lib here because nginx loads them relative to _prefix
 perl -pi -e 's|#LIBDIR#|%{_lib}|g' conf/nginx.conf
 
 %if %{with fancyindex}