diff --git a/powerman-piddir.patch b/powerman-piddir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e27070b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/powerman-piddir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+--- scripts/powerman.init.in
++++ scripts/powerman.init.in
+@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
+ DAEMON="$sbindir/powermand"
+ #DAEMON_ARGS=
+ CONFIG=$sysconfdir/powerman/powerman.conf
+-PIDFILE="$localstatedir/run/powerman/powermand.pid"
++PIDDIR="$localstatedir/run/powerman"
++PIDFILE="$PIDDIR/powermand.pid"
+ #NICE=
+ USER=@RUN_AS_USER@
+ #SIGHUP_RELOAD=
+@@ -53,7 +54,10 @@
+   SCRIPT_NAME="`basename \"$0\" .init | sed 's/^[SK][0-9][0-9]*//'`"
+   SIGTERM_TIMEOUT="3"
+   STATUS=0
+-
++  if [ ! -d "$PIDDIR" ] ; then
++    mkdir "$PIDDIR"
++    chown $USER $PIDDIR
++  fi
+   # Read configuration defaults to override variables:
+   #   $DAEMON_ARGS, $CONFIG, $PIDFILE, $USER, $NICE, $SIGHUP_RELOAD
+   ##
diff --git a/powerman.changes b/powerman.changes
index eddfd42..021c66d 100644
--- a/powerman.changes
+++ b/powerman.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May 19 02:38:24 CEST 2010 - ro@suse.de
+
+- keep /var/run/powerman only as ghost in filelist
+  and create it in initscript if missing 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Aug 14 15:00:56 CEST 2009 - sbrabec@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/powerman.spec b/powerman.spec
index 28221c4..eae82c4 100644
--- a/powerman.spec
+++ b/powerman.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ License:        GPL
 Group:          Productivity/Clustering/HA
 Url:            http://powerman.sourceforge.net/
 Source:         %{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Patch0:         powerman-piddir.patch
 Summary:        Centralized Power Control for Clusters
 BuildRequires:  curl-devel ncurses-devel tcpd-devel
 # For directory ownership:
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ Authors:
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0
 
 %build
 # --with-genders
@@ -117,7 +119,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %doc AUTHORS ChangeLog ChangeLog-1.0 DISCLAIMER COPYING NEWS README TODO
 %{_bindir}/*
 %{_libdir}/stonith/plugins/external/powerman
-%dir %attr(0755,daemon,root) %config %{_localstatedir}/run/powerman
+%dir %attr(0755,daemon,root) %ghost %{_localstatedir}/run/powerman
 %doc %{_mandir}/man?/*.*
 %exclude %doc %{_mandir}/man3/*.*
 %{_sbindir}/*