diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 7c5e8cea..92dd8348 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ RUN chown atlpan -R /var/log/idds
 RUN chown apache -R /var/idds/wsgisocks/
 
 # redis
-RUN chmod a+rx /etc/redis*
+RUN chmod -R a+rx /etc/redis*
 # RUN chmod a+rwx /var/log/redis
 # RUN chmod a+rwx /var/lib/redis
 RUN rm -fr /var/log/redis
diff --git a/start-daemon.sh b/start-daemon.sh
index da287701..c8f0b901 100755
--- a/start-daemon.sh
+++ b/start-daemon.sh
@@ -204,10 +204,10 @@ bash ${cronExec}
 
 # start redis
 mkdir /var/log/idds/redis
-if [ ! -f /var/log/redis ]; then
+if [ ! -h /var/log/redis ]; then
     ln -s /var/log/idds/redis /var/log/redis
 fi
-if [ ! -f /var/lib/redis ]; then
+if [ ! -h /var/lib/redis ]; then
     ln -s /var/log/idds/redis /var/lib/redis
 fi
 /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf --supervised systemd &