diff --git a/mysql/.footprint b/mysql/.footprint
index 14b184089..be38058fd 100644
--- a/mysql/.footprint
+++ b/mysql/.footprint
@@ -254,4 +254,6 @@ drwxr-xr-x	root/root	var/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	var/lib/
 drwx------	mysql/mysql	var/lib/mysql/
 drwxr-xr-x	root/root	var/log/
--rw-------	mysql/mysql	var/log/mysqld.log (EMPTY)
+drwx------	mysql/mysql	var/log/mysql/
+drwxr-xr-x	root/root	var/run/
+drwx------	mysql/mysql	var/run/mysql/
diff --git a/mysql/.md5sum b/mysql/.md5sum
index e37688bd8..c8ce7b738 100644
--- a/mysql/.md5sum
+++ b/mysql/.md5sum
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-0bf963dec6788c90f82ab7b104b8f427  my.cnf
+1622e62c80d128f1951a12c0125d3fb5  my.cnf
 37664399c91021abe070faa700ecd0ed  mysql-5.6.25.tar.gz
-464c23eafb83d93f24d2a04415db2202  mysqld
+5ce1297ee84c95df59260707f0ec44c3  mysqld
diff --git a/mysql/Pkgfile b/mysql/Pkgfile
index 2d1dd03b0..2ef4f0eae 100644
--- a/mysql/Pkgfile
+++ b/mysql/Pkgfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 name=mysql
 version=5.6.25
-release=1
+release=2
 source=(http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mysql/Downloads/MySQL-5.6/$name-$version.tar.gz \
         my.cnf mysqld)
 
@@ -34,10 +34,7 @@ build () {
     rm $PKG/usr/share/mysql/charsets/README
     find $PKG/usr/share/mysql/* -type d ! -name english ! -name charsets | xargs rm -rf {} \;
 
-    install -d  $PKG/var/{lib,log}
-    touch mysqld.log
-    install -m 600 -o mysql -g mysql mysqld.log $PKG/var/log
-    install -d -m 700 -o mysql -g mysql $PKG/var/lib/mysql
+    install -d -m 700 -o mysql -g mysql $PKG/var/{lib,log,run}/mysql
     install -D -m 755 $SRC/mysqld $PKG/etc/rc.d/mysqld
     install -m 600 $SRC/my.cnf $PKG/etc
 }
diff --git a/mysql/my.cnf b/mysql/my.cnf
index db6f0d3cd..e8854b5d2 100644
--- a/mysql/my.cnf
+++ b/mysql/my.cnf
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 [mysqld]
 datadir          = /var/lib/mysql
 user             = mysql
-pid-file         = /var/run/mysqld.pid
+pid-file         = /var/run/mysql/mysqld.pid
 socket           = /tmp/mysql.sock
 port             = 3306
-general_log      = 1
-general_log_file = /var/log/mysqld.log
+#general_log      = 1
+#general_log_file = /var/log/mysql/general.log
 
 skip-networking
 skip-innodb
diff --git a/mysql/mysqld b/mysql/mysqld
index eb9b74e06..8df06b24f 100644
--- a/mysql/mysqld
+++ b/mysql/mysqld
@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@
 SSD=/sbin/start-stop-daemon
 PROG=/usr/sbin/mysqld
 MYSQL_CFG=/etc/my.cnf
-PID=$(sed -n 's/^pid-file[ \t]*=[ \t]*//p' $MYSQL_CFG)
-USR=$(sed -n 's/^user[ \t]*=[ \t]*//p' $MYSQL_CFG)
+PID=/var/run/mysql/mysqld.pid
+LOG=/var/log/mysqld.log
 
 case $1 in
 start)
-	touch $PID && chown $USR:$USR $PID
-	$SSD --start --background --pidfile $PID --exec $PROG
+	$SSD --start -bC --pidfile $PID --exec $PROG >> $LOG 2>&1
 	;;
 stop)
 	$SSD --stop --remove-pidfile --retry 10 --pidfile $PID