diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng-tmpfiles.conf b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng-tmpfiles.conf
index 1c79f0d8c3..ebb9d67800 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng-tmpfiles.conf
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng/iptraf-ng-tmpfiles.conf
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 d /run/iptraf-ng 0755 root root -
+d /var/log/iptraf-ng 0755 root root -
+d /var/lib/iptraf-ng 0755 root root -
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb
index 115bbf082b..27a0f4441d 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/iptraf/iptraf-ng_1.2.1.bb
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ do_compile() {
 
 do_install() {
     oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install
-    install -d -m 0755 ${D}${localstatedir}/{log,lib}/iptraf-ng
     install -D -m 0644 -p ${S}/iptraf-ng-logrotate.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/iptraf-ng
     install -Dm 0644 ${WORKDIR}/iptraf-ng-tmpfiles.conf ${D}${libdir}/tmpfiles.d/iptraf-ng-tmpfiles.conf
 }