diff --git a/nagios/daemon-init.in b/nagios/daemon-init.in

index cdb9b93..b06bb33 100644

--- a/nagios/daemon-init.in

+++ b/nagios/daemon-init.in

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ case "$1" in

 			su - $NagiosUser -c "touch $NagiosVarDir/nagios.log $NagiosRetentionFile"

 			rm -f $NagiosCommandFile

 			touch $NagiosRunFile

-			chown $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosRunFile

+			chown -h $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosRunFile

 			$NagiosBin -d $NagiosCfgFile

 			if [ -d $NagiosLockDir ]; then touch $NagiosLockDir/$NagiosLockFile; fi

 			echo " done."