diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.service b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.service
index df42745731..78df437f68 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.service
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.service
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ Description=Tinyproxy, Lightweight http(s) proxy daemon
 RequiresMountsFor=/var
 
 [Service]
-Group=tinyproxy
 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/log/tinyproxy
-ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R nobody.tinyproxy /var/log/tinyproxy
+ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R tinyproxy.nogroup /var/log/tinyproxy
 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/tinyproxy
-ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R nobody.tinyproxy /var/run/tinyproxy
+ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R tinyproxy.nogroup /var/run/tinyproxy
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/tinyproxy -d
+PIDFile=/var/run/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.pid
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.10.0.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.10.0.bb
index 894eaac99a..7d97f52a78 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.10.0.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.10.0.bb
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ inherit autotools systemd useradd
 #User specific
 USERADD_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
 USERADD_PARAM_${PN} = "--system --home /dev/null \
-                       --no-user-group --gid nogroup tinypoxy"
+                       --no-user-group --gid nogroup tinyproxy"
 
 SYSTEMD_PACKAGES += "${BPN}"
 SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "tinyproxy.service"