diff --git a/srcpkgs/systemd/template b/srcpkgs/systemd/template
index 5946b9e344c..095583b90c0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/systemd/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/systemd/template
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'systemd'
 pkgname=systemd
-version=187
-revision=2
-distfiles="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
+version=188
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-distro=other --libexecdir=/usr/lib
 --disable-selinux --disable-tcpwrap --with-rootprefix=/usr
@@ -19,7 +18,8 @@ short_desc="A system and service manager for Linux"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd"
 license="LGPL-2.1, GPL-2, MIT"
-checksum=1a3b338f00cc1ec8b1dcdafe6ce7928f016f70403190db72960df38731fbeed4
+distfiles="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
+checksum=e839ed6061db57933b956f5d6952d9ad9b5ec1608363269d627cfd58c363215b
 long_desc="
  systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB
  init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses 
@@ -38,10 +38,12 @@ conf_files="
 /etc/systemd/journald.conf
 /etc/systemd/logind.conf"
 
-# Required by loginctl enable-linger.
+system_groups="adm"
+
 make_dirs="
 /etc/local.d 0755 root root
-/var/lib/systemd 0755 root root"
+/var/lib/systemd 0755 root root
+/var/log/journal 0755 root adm"
 
 post_install() {
 	for f in etc/binfmt.d etc/sysctl.d etc/modules-load.d etc/tmpfiles.d \