diff --git a/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.postinst b/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.postinst
index eb4fd7436..66de7230c 100644
--- a/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.postinst
+++ b/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.postinst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ if [ "$1" = 'configure' ] ; then
 
         # try to start the daemon
         if [ -x /etc/init.d/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-daemon ] ; then
-                /etc/init.d/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-daemon start || true
+		invoke-rc.d ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-daemon start || true
         fi
 fi
 
diff --git a/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.prerm b/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.prerm
index d7240aee1..61a0200c6 100644
--- a/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.prerm
+++ b/debian/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-kernel-dkms.prerm
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ version=`dpkg-query -W -f='${Version}' "$package" \
         |rev|cut -d- -f2-|rev|cut -d':' -f2|tr -d "\n"`
 
 # make sure it's not running
-/etc/init.d/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-daemon stop || true
+if [ -x /etc/init.d/ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-daemon ] ; then
+	invoke-rc.d ngcp-mediaproxy-ng-daemon stop || true
+fi
 
 dkms remove -m "$name" -v "$version" --all || true