diff --git a/killYACY.sh b/killYACY.sh
index 3a9ff5691..e9413e788 100755
--- a/killYACY.sh
+++ b/killYACY.sh
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ PID=`fuser DATA/LOG/yacy00.log | awk '{print $1}'`
 echo "process-id is " $PID
 kill -3 $PID
 kill -9 $PID
+rm -f DATA/yacy.running
 echo "killed pid " $PID ", YaCy terminated"