diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 19425ecd..92cba4f4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ aplupload:
 
 .PHONY: install
 install: country.dat vznet.conf vzdump.conf vzdump-hook-script.pl
+	install -d -m 0700 -o www-data -g www-data ${DESTDIR}/var/log/pveproxy
+	install -D -m 0644 debian/pve.logrotate ${DESTDIR}/etc/logrotate.d/pve
 	install -d ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/${PACKAGE}
 	install -d ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1
 	install -d ${DOCDIR}/examples
diff --git a/PVE/APIDaemon.pm b/PVE/APIDaemon.pm
index 127e42f9..f24f8f3f 100755
--- a/PVE/APIDaemon.pm
+++ b/PVE/APIDaemon.pm
@@ -704,10 +704,11 @@ sub start_workers {
 	    sleep (1);
 	} elsif ($pid) { #parent
 	    $workers->{$pid} = 1;
-	    $0 = "$0 worker";
 	    syslog('info', "worker $pid started");
 	    $need--;
 	} else {
+	    $0 = "$0 worker";
+
 	    $SIG{TERM} = $SIG{QUIT} = sub {
 		$child_terminate = 1;
 	    };
diff --git a/bin/init.d/pveproxy b/bin/init.d/pveproxy
index f4b0c2d3..d95dff50 100755
--- a/bin/init.d/pveproxy
+++ b/bin/init.d/pveproxy
@@ -15,13 +15,18 @@ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
 DAEMON=/usr/bin/pveproxy
 NAME=pveproxy
 DESC="PVE API Proxy Server"
-PIDFILE=/var/run/pveproxy.pid
+RUNDIR=/var/run/pveproxy
+PIDFILE=${RUNDIR}/pveproxy.pid
 
 test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
 
 # avoid warnings about uninstalled locales when pveproxy executes commands
 export LC_ALL="C"
 
+mkdir -p ${RUNDIR} || true
+chmod 0700 ${RUNDIR} || true
+chown www-data:www-data ${RUNDIR} || true
+ 
 case "$1" in
 	start)
 		log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
diff --git a/bin/pvedaemon b/bin/pvedaemon
index 447bb5a2..218e440c 100755
--- a/bin/pvedaemon
+++ b/bin/pvedaemon
@@ -49,9 +49,7 @@ eval {
 	lockfile => $lockfile,
 	keep_alive => 100,
 	max_conn => 500,
-	max_requests => 1000,
-	logfile => '/var/log/pve/pvedaemon.log', # fixme?
-	);
+	max_requests => 1000);
 };
 
 my $err = $@;
diff --git a/bin/pveproxy b/bin/pveproxy
index 2d0865e6..05a89d10 100755
--- a/bin/pveproxy
+++ b/bin/pveproxy
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ delete @ENV{qw(IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)};
 
 use lib '..'; #  fixme
 use strict;
+use English;
 use Getopt::Long;
 use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";
 use Socket;
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ use File::Find;
 use Data::Dumper;
 
 
-my $pidfile = "/var/run/pveproxy.pid";
+my $pidfile = "/var/run/pveproxy/pveproxy.pid";
 my $lockfile = "/var/lock/pveproxy.lck";
 
 my $opt_debug;
@@ -42,6 +43,16 @@ $SIG{'__WARN__'} = sub {
 
 $0 = "pveproxy";
 
+# run as www-data
+my $gid = getgrnam('www-data') || die "getgrnam failed - $!\n";
+POSIX::setgid($gid) || die "setgid $gid failed - $!\n";
+$EGID = "$gid $gid"; # this calls setgroups
+my $uid = getpwnam('www-data') || die "getpwnam failed - $!\n";
+POSIX::setuid($uid) || die "setuid $uid failed - $!\n";
+
+# just to be sure
+die "detected strange uid/gid\n" if !($UID == $uid && $EUID == $uid && $GID eq "$gid $gid" && $EGID eq "$gid $gid");
+
 PVE::APIDaemon::enable_debug() if $opt_debug;
 
 sub add_dirs {
@@ -77,7 +88,7 @@ eval {
 	max_conn => 500,
 	max_requests => 1000,
 	trusted_env => 0, # not trusted, anyone can connect
-	logfile => '/var/log/pve/access.log',
+	logfile => '/var/log/pveproxy/access.log',
 	lockfile => $lockfile,
 	ssl => {
 	    key_file => '/etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.key',
@@ -103,6 +114,7 @@ if ($err) {
     exit (-1);
 }
 
+
 if ($opt_debug || !($cpid = fork ())) {
 
     $SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE';
diff --git a/debian/conffiles b/debian/conffiles
index 1e64c3b5..73e61a46 100644
--- a/debian/conffiles
+++ b/debian/conffiles
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 /etc/cron.daily/pve
 /etc/vz/vznet.conf
 /etc/vzdump.conf
+/etc/logrotate.d/pve
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 65b7a664..6276f09c 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Version: @VERSION@-@PACKAGERELEASE@
 Section: admin
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: amd64
-Depends: perl5, libtimedate-perl, libauthen-pam-perl, libintl-perl, rsync, libjson-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, vncterm, qemu-server (>= 1.1-1), libwww-perl (>= 6.04-1), libnet-http-perl (>= 6.06-1), libhttp-daemon-perl, wget, libnet-dns-perl, vlan, ifenslave-2.6 (>= 1.1.0-10), liblinux-inotify2-perl, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, netcat-traditional, pve-cluster (>= 1.0-29), libpve-common-perl, libpve-storage-perl, libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libpve-access-control, libio-socket-ssl-perl, libfilesys-df-perl, libfile-readbackwards-perl, libfile-sync-perl, redhat-cluster-pve, resource-agents-pve, fence-agents-pve, cstream, postfix | mail-transport-agent, libxml-parser-perl, lzop, dtach, libanyevent-perl, libio-compress-perl, liburi-perl
+Depends: perl5, libtimedate-perl, libauthen-pam-perl, libintl-perl, rsync, libjson-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, vncterm, qemu-server (>= 1.1-1), libwww-perl (>= 6.04-1), libnet-http-perl (>= 6.06-1), libhttp-daemon-perl, wget, libnet-dns-perl, vlan, ifenslave-2.6 (>= 1.1.0-10), liblinux-inotify2-perl, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, netcat-traditional, pve-cluster (>= 1.0-29), libpve-common-perl, libpve-storage-perl, libterm-readline-gnu-perl, libpve-access-control, libio-socket-ssl-perl, libfilesys-df-perl, libfile-readbackwards-perl, libfile-sync-perl, redhat-cluster-pve, resource-agents-pve, fence-agents-pve, cstream, postfix | mail-transport-agent, libxml-parser-perl, lzop, dtach, libanyevent-perl, libio-compress-perl, liburi-perl, logrotate
 Conflicts: netcat-openbsd, vzdump
 Replaces: vzdump
 Provides: vzdump
diff --git a/debian/pve.logrotate b/debian/pve.logrotate
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..81a4bfbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/pve.logrotate
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/var/log/pveproxy/access.log {
+        rotate 7
+        daily	
+	missingok
+	compress
+	delaycompress
+	notifempty
+	create 640 www-data www-data
+	sharedscripts
+	postrotate
+		/etc/init.d/pveproxy reload > /dev/null
+	endscript
+}