diff --git a/install/alternc.install b/install/alternc.install
index 3434b354..9d12f4c7 100644
--- a/install/alternc.install
+++ b/install/alternc.install
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ fi
 chown :alterncpanel /etc/alternc/local.sh
 . /etc/alternc/local.sh
 
+# May be missing 
+test -d /var/run/alternc || ( mkdir -p /var/run/alternc && chown alterncpanel:alterncpanel /var/run/alternc )
+
 # Create the target directory
 for i in "$ALTERNC_HTML" "$ALTERNC_MAIL" "$ALTERNC_LOGS" ; do
   test -d "$i" || mkdir -p "$i"