diff --git a/app-admin/logcheck/files/logcheck.cron b/app-admin/logcheck/files/logcheck.cron
index 3b3f4fcf62bd..3ae685c2775c 100644
--- a/app-admin/logcheck/files/logcheck.cron
+++ b/app-admin/logcheck/files/logcheck.cron
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -e
 
 if [ ! -d /var/lock/logcheck ]; then
 	mkdir -p /var/lock/logcheck
+	chown logcheck:logcheck /var/lock/logcheck
 fi
-chown -R logcheck:logcheck /var/lock/logcheck
 
-su -s /bin/bash -c /usr/sbin/logcheck logcheck
+/sbin/runuser -u logcheck -- nice -n10 /usr/sbin/logcheck
diff --git a/app-admin/logcheck/logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild b/app-admin/logcheck/logcheck-1.3.23-r1.ebuild
similarity index 91%
rename from app-admin/logcheck/logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild
rename to app-admin/logcheck/logcheck-1.3.23-r1.ebuild
index b278d75e832a..bfc5236aba5c 100644
--- a/app-admin/logcheck/logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild
+++ b/app-admin/logcheck/logcheck-1.3.23-r1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=7
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ src_install() {
 	doexe "${FILESDIR}"/logcheck.cron
 
 	readme.gentoo_create_doc
+
+	fowners -R logcheck:logcheck /etc/logcheck /var/lib/logcheck || die
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {
-	chown -R logcheck:logcheck /etc/logcheck /var/lib/logcheck || die
-
 	readme.gentoo_print_elog
 }