diff --git a/redis-sentinel.service b/redis-sentinel.service
index 0c87ff7..850cd81 100644
--- a/redis-sentinel.service
+++ b/redis-sentinel.service
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ After=network.target
 [Service]
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-sentinel /etc/redis-sentinel.conf --daemonize no
 ExecStop=/usr/libexec/redis-shutdown redis-sentinel
+Type=notify
 User=redis
 Group=redis
 RuntimeDirectory=redis
diff --git a/redis.service b/redis.service
index 6c19f81..dffde40 100644
--- a/redis.service
+++ b/redis.service
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ After=network.target
 [Service]
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis.conf --daemonize no
 ExecStop=/usr/libexec/redis-shutdown
+Type=notify
 User=redis
 Group=redis
 RuntimeDirectory=redis
diff --git a/redis.spec b/redis.spec
index ad6d620..a18a635 100644
--- a/redis.spec
+++ b/redis.spec
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ sed -i -e 's|OPTIMIZATION?=-O3|OPTIMIZATION=%{optflags}|g' deps/hiredis/Makefile
 sed -i -e 's|$(LDFLAGS)|%{?__global_ldflags}|g' deps/hiredis/Makefile
 sed -i -e 's|$(CFLAGS)|%{optflags}|g' deps/linenoise/Makefile
 sed -i -e 's|$(LDFLAGS)|%{?__global_ldflags}|g' deps/linenoise/Makefile
+# Configuration file changes and additions
+%if 0%{?with_systemd}
+sed -i -e 's|^supervised .*$|supervised systemd|g' redis.conf
+sed -i -e '$ asupervised systemd|g' sentinel.conf
+%endif
 
 %build
 make %{?_smp_mflags} \