diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/e-smith/sql/init/00_restore_dumped_dbs b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/e-smith/sql/init/00_restore_dumped_dbs
index 6e08a17..6ed5853 100644
--- a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/e-smith/sql/init/00_restore_dumped_dbs
+++ b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/e-smith/sql/init/00_restore_dumped_dbs
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 ( cat /home/e-smith/db/mysql/mysql.dump ;
   cat /var/lib/mysql.private/set.password ) | mysql || exit 1
-/bin/rm /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid
+/bin/rm /run/mariadb/mariadb.pid
 /usr/bin/systemctl restart mariadb.service
 for i in $(seq 1 20);
 do
-  if [ -f /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid ]
+  if [ -f /run/mariadb/mariadb.pid ]
   then
       /bin/rm /home/e-smith/db/mysql/mysql.dump
       exit 0
diff --git a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/my.cnf/006pid-file b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/my.cnf/006pid-file
index 83bbe9e..b0a87c4 100644
--- a/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/my.cnf/006pid-file
+++ b/root/etc/e-smith/templates/etc/my.cnf/006pid-file
@@ -1 +1 @@
-pid-file=/var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid
+pid-file=/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid
diff --git a/root/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service.d/50koozali.conf b/root/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service.d/50koozali.conf
index f8de643..2af674a 100644
--- a/root/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service.d/50koozali.conf
+++ b/root/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service.d/50koozali.conf
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ PermissionsStartOnly=true
 
 #reset
 ExecStartPre=
-ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d /var/run/mariadb -o mysql -g mysql -m 0755
+ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -d /run/mariadb -o mysql -g mysql -m 0755
 
 # add mariadb >=10.6 specifics
 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c "systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION"
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mariadbd \
   --basedir=/usr \
    --datadir=/var/lib/mysql \
     --user=mysql \
-     --pid-file=/var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid
+     --pid-file=/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid
 
 ExecStartPost=-/sbin/e-smith/systemd/mariadb-post
 
diff --git a/root/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/smemariadb.conf b/root/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/smemariadb.conf
index ba59d5b..547fcef 100644
--- a/root/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/smemariadb.conf
+++ b/root/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/smemariadb.conf
@@ -1 +1 @@
-d /var/run/mariadb 0755 mysql mysql -
+d /run/mariadb 0755 mysql mysql -