diff --git a/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch/log/run b/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch/log/run
deleted file mode 120000
index 914853dd4f..0000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch/log/run
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/usr/bin/rsvlog
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch/log/run b/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch/log/run
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..4e4d1d47e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/files/elasticsearch/log/run
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Author: TJ Vanderpoel
+# Licence: MIT
+# This is a generic 'run' script meant to be linked in a log/ directory
+# of a runit, daemontools, s6, or similar service.
+# It requires svlogd available in the path.
+
+# If the file './conf' exists, it can modify the behavior
+# of the svlogd in these ways:
+
+# USERGROUP=user:group (default rsvlog:adm)
+# SV_LOGDIR=/path/to/log (default `basename $(dirname $PWD)`)
+# CURRENT_LOG_FILE=filename.log (default 'current')
+
+set -e
+if [ $0 != "./run" ];then
+  echo "This script meant to be linked as ./run in a service/log directory only!"
+  exit 1
+fi
+curdir=$(basename $(pwd))
+if [ "$curdir" != "log" ];then
+  echo "This script meant to be run from a service/log directory only!"
+  exit 1
+fi
+if [ -f ./conf ];then
+  . ./conf
+fi
+if [ "x$SV_LOGDIR" != "x" ];then
+  logdir=$SV_LOGDIR
+fi
+if [ -w /var/log ];then
+  user_group=${USERGROUP:-rsvlog:adm}
+  if [ "x$logdir" = "x" ];then
+    logdir=$(basename $(dirname $(pwd)))
+  fi
+  [ -d "/var/log/$logdir" ] || mkdir -p "/var/log/$logdir"
+  [ -L ./main ] || [ -d ./main ] || ln -s "/var/log/$logdir" ./main
+  [ -L ./current ] || ln -s main/current
+  if [ "x$CURRENT_LOG_FILE" != "x" ];then
+    [ -L "/var/log/$logdir/$CURRENT_LOG_FILE" ] || ln -s current "/var/log/$logdir/$CURRENT_LOG_FILE"
+  fi
+  usergroup=$(stat -c "%U:%G" "/var/log/$logdir")
+  if [ "$usergroup" != "$user_group" ];then
+    chown -R $user_group "/var/log/$logdir"
+  fi
+  echo Logging as $user_group to /var/log/$logdir
+  exec chpst -u $user_group svlogd -t ./main
+else
+  echo Logging in $PWD
+  if [ "x$CURRENT_LOG_FILE" != "x" ];then
+    [ -L "$CURRENT_LOG_FILE" ] || ln -s current "$CURRENT_LOG_FILE"
+  fi
+  exec svlogd -t ./
+fi
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/template b/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/template
index 58900e3b54..e46d6dec20 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/elasticsearch/template
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Template file for 'elasticsearch'
 pkgname=elasticsearch
 version=1.5.0
-revision=4
+revision=5
 only_for_archs="i686 x86_64"
-depends="sv-helper virtual?java-runtime"
+depends="virtual?java-runtime"
 short_desc="A distributed, open source search and analytics engine"
 maintainer="bougyman <bougyman@rubyists.com>"
 license="apache2"