diff --git a/debian/fail2ban.init b/debian/fail2ban.init
index 98e7216a..d9bb3f50 100755
--- a/debian/fail2ban.init
+++ b/debian/fail2ban.init
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 #  reindented + minor corrections + to work on sarge without modifications
 # Modified: by Glenn Aaldering <glenn@openvideo.nl>
 #  added exit codes for status command
+# Modified: by Juan Karlo de Guzman <jkarlodg@gmail.com>
+#  corrected the DAEMON's path and the SOCKFILE
+#  rename this file: (sudo) mv /etc/init.d/fail2ban.init /etc/init.d/fail2ban
+#  same with the logrotate file: (sudo) mv /etc/logrotate.d/fail2ban.logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/fail2ban
 #
 PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 DESC="authentication failure monitor"
@@ -24,13 +28,13 @@ NAME=fail2ban
 
 # fail2ban-client is not a daemon itself but starts a daemon and
 # loads its with configuration
-DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME-client
+DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/$NAME-client
 SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
 
 # Ad-hoc way to parse out socket file name
 SOCKFILE=`grep -h '^[^#]*socket *=' /etc/$NAME/$NAME.conf /etc/$NAME/$NAME.local 2>/dev/null \
           | tail -n 1 | sed -e 's/.*socket *= *//g' -e 's/ *$//g'`
-[ -z "$SOCKFILE" ] && SOCKFILE='/tmp/fail2ban.sock'
+[ -z "$SOCKFILE" ] && SOCKFILE='/var/run/fail2ban.sock'
 
 # Exit if the package is not installed
 [ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0