diff --git a/srcpkgs/kapacitor/files/kapacitor/run b/srcpkgs/kapacitor/files/kapacitor/run
index d4e85a95f1..bf01be588b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kapacitor/files/kapacitor/run
+++ b/srcpkgs/kapacitor/files/kapacitor/run
@@ -1,6 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-
-mkdir -p /var/log/kapacitor
-chown -R _kapacitor:_kapacitor /var/log/kapacitor
-
 exec chpst -u _kapacitor:_kapacitor kapacitord --config /etc/kapacitor/kapacitor.conf 2>&1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kapacitor/template b/srcpkgs/kapacitor/template
index f171d57e7d..07285bb13c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kapacitor/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/kapacitor/template
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 # Template file for 'kapacitor'
 pkgname=kapacitor
 version=1.5.2
-revision=1
-build_style="go"
-go_import_path="github.com/influxdata/kapacitor"
+revision=2
+build_style=go
+go_import_path=github.com/influxdata/kapacitor
 go_package="${go_import_path}/cmd/kapacitor
  ${go_import_path}/cmd/kapacitord"
 go_ldflags="-X main.version=${version}"
 system_accounts="_kapacitor"
 _kapacitor_homedir="/var/lib/kapacitor"
-make_dirs="/var/lib/kapacitor 0755 _kapacitor _kapacitor"
 conf_files="/etc/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.conf"
 short_desc="Open source framework for alerting on time series data"
 maintainer="Michael Aldridge <maldridge@voidlinux.org>"
@@ -18,6 +17,10 @@ homepage="https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/kapacitor/"
 distfiles="https://github.com/influxdata/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=4805794672f07e364c9ab6e80147f340694d0c715975eb534056254fb5fe60a6
 
+make_dirs="
+	/var/lib/kapacitor 0755 _kapacitor _kapacitor
+	/var/log/kapacitor 0755 _kapacitor _kapacitor"
+
 # This package has a Gopkg.lock and a Gopkg.toml, but for build the
 # required files are part of the dist tarball.  Thus we don't run dep
 # ensure for this build.