diff --git a/scripts/Makefile b/scripts/Makefile
index f4e3c68e..9a66c65d 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ BIN=	on_ac_power
 INSTALLAFTER = _installafter
 
 ifeq (${OS},Linux)
+SRCS+= rc-sstat.in
 BIN+=	rc-sstat
 endif
 
diff --git a/scripts/rc-sstat b/scripts/rc-sstat.in
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 99%
rename from scripts/rc-sstat
rename to scripts/rc-sstat.in
index bcd0ae23..a204dbda
--- a/scripts/rc-sstat
+++ b/scripts/rc-sstat.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!@SHELL@
 # Copyright (c) 2015 The OpenRC Authors.
 # See the Authors file at the top-level directory of this distribution and
 # https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/AUTHORS