diff --git a/redis.changes b/redis.changes
index 6a91bb0..803a9b1 100644
--- a/redis.changes
+++ b/redis.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 27 16:18:42 UTC 2011 - seife+obs@b1-systems.com
+
+- package log directory to fix server start
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan 18 21:08:35 UTC 2011 - asn@cryptomilk.org
 
diff --git a/redis.spec b/redis.spec
index a342a1f..2e0fa8c 100644
--- a/redis.spec
+++ b/redis.spec
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ make PROF="%{optflags}" %{?jobs:-j%jobs}
     %{buildroot}%{_bindir}                        \
     %{buildroot}%{_libdir}                        \
     %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}                       \
-    %{buildroot}%{_data_dir}
+    %{buildroot}%{_data_dir}                      \
+    %{buildroot}/var/log/redis
 
 %{__install} -m 0755 redis-benchmark %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/redis-benchmark
 %{__install} -m 0755 redis-cli %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/redis-cli
@@ -116,6 +117,7 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/init.d/redis
 %config(noreplace) %attr(0640, %{name}, %{name}) %{_sysconfdir}/redis.conf
 %dir %attr(0750, %{name}, %{name}) %{_data_dir}
+%dir %attr(0750, %{name}, %{name}) /var/log/redis
 
 %files doc
 %defattr(-,root,root)