diff --git a/extras/apparmor/configure_args.sh b/extras/apparmor/configure_args.sh
index adf6447c..062b07cd 100755
--- a/extras/apparmor/configure_args.sh
+++ b/extras/apparmor/configure_args.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #
 
 if [ -x ./configure ]; then
-    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var $@
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/run $@
 else
     echo "[*] Execute from the fwknop top level sources directory"
 fi
diff --git a/extras/apparmor/usr.sbin.fwknopd b/extras/apparmor/usr.sbin.fwknopd
index e967a56e..e0aba356 100644
--- a/extras/apparmor/usr.sbin.fwknopd
+++ b/extras/apparmor/usr.sbin.fwknopd
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Last Modified: Sun Aug 18 22:54:57 2013
 # Assumes fwknopd was built with:
-#    './configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var'
+#    './configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/run'
 #include <tunables/global>
 
 /usr/sbin/fwknopd {