diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ec04e22d0e3..8318664b947 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 - [#2104](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2104): Include NEQ when calculating field filters.
 - [#2112](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2112): Set GOMAXPROCS on startup. This may have been causing extra leader elections, which would cause a number of other bugs or instability.
 - [#2111](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2111) and [#2025](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/2025): Raft stability fixes. Non-contiguous log error and others.
+- [#2114](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2114): Correctly start influxd on platforms without start-stop-daemon.
 
 ## v0.9.0-rc16 [2015-03-24]
 
diff --git a/scripts/init.sh b/scripts/init.sh
index c75b04a1800..69f600924a8 100755
--- a/scripts/init.sh
+++ b/scripts/init.sh
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ case $1 in
         if which start-stop-daemon > /dev/null 2>&1; then
             start-stop-daemon --chuid influxdb:influxdb --start --quiet --pidfile $pidfile --exec $daemon -- -pidfile $pidfile -config $config >$STDOUT 2>$STDERR &
         else
-            nohup $daemon run -config $config -pidfile $pidfile > $STDOUT 2>&1 &
+            nohup $daemon -pidfile $pidfile -config $config >$STDOUT 2>$STDERR &
         fi
         log_success_msg "$name process was started"
         ;;