diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb b/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb
index 63da028f81..ac5c37fd39 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/consolekit/consolekit_0.4.6.bb
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ FILES_pam-plugin-ck-connector += "${base_libdir}/security/*.so"
 RDEPENDS_pam-plugin-ck-connector += "${PN}"
 
 do_install_append() {
+	if ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
+		install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d
+		echo "d ${localstatedir}/log/ConsoleKit - - - -" \
+			> ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/consolekit.conf
+	fi
+
 	# Remove /var/run from package as console-kit-daemon will populate it on startup
 	rm -fr "${D}${localstatedir}/run"
 }