diff --git a/srcpkgs/keepalived/files/keepalived/run b/srcpkgs/keepalived/files/keepalived/run
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+++ b/srcpkgs/keepalived/files/keepalived/run
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+#!/bin/sh
+exec keepalived --dont-fork
diff --git a/srcpkgs/keepalived/template b/srcpkgs/keepalived/template
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+# Template file for 'keepalived'
+pkgname=keepalived
+version=1.2.15
+revision=1
+conf_files="/etc/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.conf"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--sbindir=/usr/bin --enable-sha1"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="libssl-devel libnl3-devel popt-devel"
+short_desc="Failover and monitoring daemon for LVS clusters"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://www.keepalived.org/"
+distfiles="http://www.keepalived.org/software/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+checksum=47db44d78549da704e0794198bfc874be65ca570d15429a6a5c23b8d91109aa9
+
+post_install() {
+	vsv $pkgname
+	rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/etc/rc.d ${DESTDIR}/etc/sysconfig
+	vmkdir usr/share/examples/$pkgname
+	mv ${DESTDIR}/etc/$pkgname/samples/* ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples/$pkgname
+}