diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index cca08ef9..56648d90 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
 		gui/Makefile
 		gui/icons/Makefile
 		scripts/Makefile
+		scripts/core-daemon.service
 		scripts/perf/Makefile
 		scripts/xen/Makefile
 		doc/Makefile
diff --git a/scripts/.gitignore b/scripts/.gitignore
index 8869397c..86129f95 100644
--- a/scripts/.gitignore
+++ b/scripts/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 core-daemon
+core-daemon.service
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.am b/scripts/Makefile.am
index 6dd33fcb..95622585 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.am
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.am
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ CLEANFILES	= core-daemon
 DISTCLEANFILES	= Makefile.in xen/Makefile xen/Makefile.in
 
 EXTRA_DIST	= core-daemon-init.d \
-		  core-daemon.service \
+		  core-daemon.service.in \
 		  core-daemon-rc.d \
 		  core-daemon-init.d-SUSE \
 		  xen
diff --git a/scripts/core-daemon.service b/scripts/core-daemon.service.in
similarity index 77%
rename from scripts/core-daemon.service
rename to scripts/core-daemon.service.in
index edb8a2cb..657c160f 100644
--- a/scripts/core-daemon.service
+++ b/scripts/core-daemon.service.in
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ After=network.target
 [Service]
 Type=forking
 PIDFile=/var/run/core-daemon.pid
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/core-daemon -d
+ExecStart=@PYTHON@ @SBINDIR@/core-daemon -d
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target