diff --git a/src/common/options.c b/src/common/options.c
--- a/src/common/options.c
+++ b/src/common/options.c
@@ -34,15 +34,22 @@ int options_init(int argc, char *argv[],
 {
   char *configfile;
 
+  size_t i;
+
   /* For those of you who don't know, the following is an example of concatenation of constant strings by the C compiler. Now, that doesn't mean you can do run-time string concatenation ;-) 
    strdup is because someday configfile will be customizable via argv[]
    */
-  configfile = strdup(SYSCONFDIR "/distren.conf");
+
+  i = strlen(SYSCONFDIR "/distren.conf") + strlen(myname) + 1;
+  configfile = malloc(i);
   if(!configfile)
     {
-      perror("strdup");
+      perror("malloc");
       return 1;
     }
+  strncpy(configfile, SYSCONFDIR "/distren", strlen(SYSCONFDIR "/distren") + 1);
+  strcat(configfile, myname);
+  strcat(configfile, ".conf");
   
   *allopts = malloc(sizeof(struct options_common));
   if(!*allopts)