diff --git a/syslog/files/logarchiver.sh b/syslog/files/logarchiver.sh
index 1431407..c73123a 100755
--- a/syslog/files/logarchiver.sh
+++ b/syslog/files/logarchiver.sh
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ restart_syslog
 
 for log in ${LOGS}; do
     gzip -f ${log} || myerror "Error while gzipping ${log}"
-    log="${log}.gz"
-    echo "`openssl dgst -sha1 ${log} | cut -d ' ' -f 2` `basename ${log}`" > \
-        ${log}.sha1
+    loggz="`basename ${log}`.gz"
+    ( cd `dirname ${log}` && openssl sha1 -out ${loggz}.sha1 ${loggz} )
 done