diff --git a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/APKBUILD b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/APKBUILD
index 1f50a35..b73946d 100644
--- a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/APKBUILD
+++ b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Joachim Schlöffel <me@joachim-schloeffel.com>
 pkgname=lavinmq
 pkgver=2.9.1
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="High-performance AMQP and MQTT message queue server"
 url="https://github.com/cloudamqp/lavinmq"
 arch="x86_64"
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ makedepends="
 	yaml-dev
 	"
 install="$pkgname.pre-install"
+pkgusers="lavinmq"
+pkggroups="lavinmq"
 subpackages="
 	$pkgname-doc
 	$pkgname-openrc:_openrc:noarch
@@ -52,6 +54,7 @@ package() {
 	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
 	rm -r "$pkgdir"/lib/systemd "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/sysusers.d
 	rmdir "$pkgdir"/lib "$pkgdir"/usr/lib
+	install -d -m 0750 -o lavinmq -g lavinmq "$pkgdir"/var/lib/lavinmq
 }
 
 _openrc() {
@@ -67,5 +70,5 @@ _openrc() {
 sha512sums="
 5f88de7a1e093b1f6e2ead5c340140bd489a99ca8adfa9f40052148490d0bdf8ff1e2dad67727e9799ad1f942755df01525e63d24b0901684a743f43c42110b9  lavinmq-2.9.1.tar.gz
 62a609d50f28db960098c4c84ce4f1dad78413366a9a9aca18fe321114d687be3bf7b71924d4ace69bd74383c5ac40d2ee09ae0eef9c1bfe653b97448e42e110  lavinmq.confd
-76fbfa1b14c58631e92f817e689584239eb644e68460c091decdcabe7661aeb210f9128545262add2fb07eeee155c8734f1e612fc59ebb897d3c67e95a56350f  lavinmq.initd
+1853196e70297b5c4a2207fde50df735620cf6d99c4994644fd676bffaf863d67300ad7ae771c4bbb86fce1a0485c2a7968cf912c5f5bb878e08b15e5a28ba1b  lavinmq.initd
 "
diff --git a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/lavinmq.initd b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/lavinmq.initd
index c78f96a..a275a65 100755
--- a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/lavinmq.initd
+++ b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/lavinmq.initd
@@ -18,9 +18,11 @@ depend() {
 }
 
 start_pre() {
-	checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "${LAVINMQ_USER:-lavinmq}:${LAVINMQ_GROUP:-lavinmq}" \
+	local service_owner="${LAVINMQ_USER:-lavinmq}:${LAVINMQ_GROUP:-lavinmq}"
+
+	checkpath -d -m 0755 -o "$service_owner" \
 		/run/lavinmq \
 		/var/log/lavinmq
-	checkpath -d -m 0750 -o "${LAVINMQ_USER:-lavinmq}:${LAVINMQ_GROUP:-lavinmq}" \
-		"$data_dir"
+	checkpath -d -m 0750 -o "$service_owner" "$data_dir"
+	checkpath -f -m 0640 -o "$service_owner" "$data_dir"/.lock
 }
diff --git a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/runtime-test.sh b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/runtime-test.sh
index 9626eb8..ef930b0 100755
--- a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/runtime-test.sh
+++ b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/runtime-test.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ test -x /usr/bin/lavinmqctl
 test -x /usr/bin/lavinmqperf
 test -f /etc/lavinmq/lavinmq.ini
 test -d /var/lib/lavinmq
+test "$(stat -c '%U:%G %a' /var/lib/lavinmq)" = "lavinmq:lavinmq 750"
 test -f /etc/conf.d/lavinmq
 test -f /etc/init.d/lavinmq
 test -f /usr/share/doc/lavinmq/README.md
@@ -18,3 +19,14 @@ lavinmqperf --version
 
 rc-update add lavinmq default || true
 test -L /etc/runlevels/default/lavinmq
+rc-service lavinmq start
+rc-service lavinmq status
+test -f /var/lib/lavinmq/.lock
+rc-service lavinmq stop
+
+chown root:root /var/lib/lavinmq/.lock
+chmod 0600 /var/lib/lavinmq/.lock
+rc-service lavinmq start
+rc-service lavinmq status
+test "$(stat -c '%U:%G %a' /var/lib/lavinmq/.lock)" = "lavinmq:lavinmq 640"
+rc-service lavinmq stop
diff --git a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/test-install.sh b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/test-install.sh
index a29fff6..a10424a 100755
--- a/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/test-install.sh
+++ b/packaging/alpine/local/lavinmq/scripts/test-install.sh
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ docker run --rm --platform "${platform}" \
     test -x /usr/bin/lavinmqperf
     test -f /etc/lavinmq/lavinmq.ini
     test -d /var/lib/lavinmq
+    test "$(stat -c "%U:%G %a" /var/lib/lavinmq)" = "lavinmq:lavinmq 750"
     test -f /etc/conf.d/lavinmq
     test -f /etc/init.d/lavinmq
     test -f /usr/share/doc/lavinmq/README.md