diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4d95026..2b51ada 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 0.5.0
 =====
+  18-Nov-2003:	- readconfig.c: include sysconfdir to the list of locations
+		  where siproxd will search for its config file
   14-Nov-2003:	- rtpproxy.c: sys/types.h needed for *BSD
 		- tested: siproxd builds on FreeBSD 4.9
    2-Nov-2003:	- rtpproxy bugfix: On repetitive INVITES, the UDP media
diff --git a/config.h.in b/config.h.in
index 6806cfd..f139cfe 100644
--- a/config.h.in
+++ b/config.h.in
@@ -166,3 +166,6 @@
 /* typedef socklen_t available */
 #undef socklen_t
 
+/* will search for config file here */
+#undef SIPROXDCONFPATH
+
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b7ec641..6159d02 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ dnl	 1-Sep-2003	tries	check for IPCHAINS
 dnl      5-Sep-2003     tries   test for pthreads before libosip stuff
 dnl     19-Sep-2003     tries   DMALLOC support
 dnl	 1-Nov-2003	tries	check for NETFILTER (IPTABLES)
+dnl	18-Nov-2003	tries	include sysconfdir to search for config
 dnl
 dnl
 dnl
@@ -281,6 +282,19 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(strncpy strchr strstr sprintf vfprintf vsnprintf)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fgets sscanf hstrerror)
 
 
+dnl
+dnl sysconfdir
+dnl
+SIPROXDCONFPATH=""
+tmpset="$sysconfdir"
+while test "x$tmpset" != "x$SIPROXDCONFPATH"; do
+  SIPROXDCONFPATH="$tmpset"
+  eval tmpset="$tmpset"
+done
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SIPROXDCONFPATH,"$SIPROXDCONFPATH",
+                  [will search for config file here])
+
+
 AC_SUBST(CPPFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(LIBS)
 
diff --git a/src/readconf.c b/src/readconf.c
index 3f2474c..6783c22 100644
--- a/src/readconf.c
+++ b/src/readconf.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ int read_config(char *name, int search) {
    char tmp[256];
    const char *completion[] = {
 	"%s/.%src",		/* this one is special... (idx=0)*/
+	SIPROXDCONFPATH "/%s.conf",
 	"/etc/%s.conf",
 	"/usr/etc/%s.conf",
 	"/usr/local/etc/%s.conf",