diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 690157899..089036701 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
    properly
  - bootdisk size reductions (a couple MB)
  - Clifford Wolf: no broken deps config option (#99)
+ - Jan Veninga: fixed snort
 
 *) 2003-09-16 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
 
diff --git a/package/misc/snort/snort.conf b/package/misc/snort/snort.conf
index 6fcd4c921..f9986c062 100644
--- a/package/misc/snort/snort.conf
+++ b/package/misc/snort/snort.conf
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ snort_premake()
 {	
 	# Comply with FHS for /var/opt/
 	sed 's/\/var\/log\/snort/\/var\/opt\/snort\/log/' src/snort.h > \
-	  src/snort.new
-	mv -f snort.h{.new,}
+	  src/snort.h.new
+	mv -f src/snort.h{.new,}
 }	
 
 snort_postmake()
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ snort_postmake()
 	# places them in etc.
 	# For security reasons this directory should not be world-readable
 	mkdir -p $root/$prefix/var
+	mkdir -p $root/$prefix/etc
 	cp -r etc/* $root/$prefix/etc/
 	cp -r rules $root/$prefix/etc/