diff -Naur a/amavisd-new-2.8.1-r1.ebuild b/amavisd-new-2.8.1-r1.ebuild
--- a/amavisd-new-2.8.1-r1.ebuild	2014-02-15 15:51:33.802946651 +0100
+++ b/amavisd-new-2.8.1-r1.ebuild	2014-02-15 16:01:59.607943706 +0100
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@
 S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
 
 src_prepare() {
+	# bug 501400, correct place for PID
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-pid-location.patch
 	if use courier ; then
 		epatch amavisd-new-courier.patch
 	fi
@@ -124,6 +126,8 @@
 	keepdir "${AMAVIS_ROOT}/quarantine"
 	keepdir "${AMAVIS_ROOT}/tmp"
 	keepdir "${AMAVIS_ROOT}/var"
+	
+	mkdir "${ED}"/run/amavis
 
 	dodoc AAAREADME.first INSTALL MANIFEST RELEASE_NOTES TODO \
 		amavisd.conf-default amavisd-custom.conf
@@ -185,5 +189,6 @@
 
 pkg_postinst() {
 	chown root:amavis "${ROOT}/etc/amavisd.conf"
+	chown amavis:amavis "${ROOT}/run/amavis"
 	chown -R amavis:amavis "${ROOT}/${AMAVIS_ROOT}"
 }
diff -Naur a/files/amavisd-new-pid-location.patch b/files/amavisd-new-pid-location.patch
--- a/files/amavisd-new-pid-location.patch	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ b/files/amavisd-new-pid-location.patch	2014-02-15 15:59:28.774944416 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -Naur a/amavisd.conf b/amavisd.conf
+--- a/amavisd.conf	2014-02-15 15:44:54.589948529 +0100
++++ b/amavisd.conf	2014-02-15 15:57:24.344945002 +0100
+@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
+ # $helpers_home = "$MYHOME/var";  # working directory for SpamAssassin, -S
+ # $lock_file = "$MYHOME/var/amavisd.lock";  # -L
+ # $pid_file  = "$MYHOME/var/amavisd.pid";   # -P
++
++# move PID file to /run gentoo bug #501400
++$pid_file = "/run/amavis/amavisd.pid";
++
+ #NOTE: create directories $MYHOME/tmp, $MYHOME/var, $MYHOME/db manually
+ 
+ $log_level = 0;              # verbosity 0..5, -d