diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/log/run b/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/log/run
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..3a5b4a58605
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/log/run
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/usr/bin/vlogger
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/run b/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/run
index 4df7dd4eeb2..de5b6d5c3e1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/run
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/files/thermald/run
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 sv check dbus >/dev/null || exit 1
-exec thermald --no-daemon --dbus-enable 1>&2
+exec thermald --no-daemon --dbus-enable 2>&1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/thermald/template b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
index 633a5a49812..98a3f1f1705 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/thermald/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/thermald/template
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
 # Template file for 'thermald'
 pkgname=thermald
 version=2.4.9
-revision=1
-_pkgname=thermal_daemon
+revision=2
 archs="i686* x86_64*"
-wrksrc="${_pkgname}-${version}"
+wrksrc="thermal_daemon-${version}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
 hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config glib-devel gtk-doc autoconf-archive"
 makedepends="dbus-glib-devel libxml2-devel libglib-devel libgomp-devel upower-devel libevdev-devel"
 short_desc="Linux Thermal Daemon program from 01.org"
 maintainer="Andrea Brancaleoni <abc@pompel.me>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
-homepage="https://github.com/intel/${_pkgname}"
-distfiles="${homepage}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
+homepage="https://github.com/intel/thermal_daemon"
+distfiles="https://github.com/intel/thermal_daemon/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=fb793a2bfaae2e544ef62801075419587b0c045041c69eeafbf61959cce07fdb
 conf_files='/etc/thermald/*'