diff --git a/package/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.service b/package/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.service
index 9c03d42946..ab7f05a2e8 100644
--- a/package/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.service
+++ b/package/bandwidthd/bandwidthd.service
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ After=network.target
 [Service]
 Type=forking
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/bandwidthd
-PIDFile=/var/run/bandwidthd.pid
+PIDFile=/run/bandwidthd.pid
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target