diff --git a/bin/update-github-list b/bin/update-github-list
index f18ad55..22c93a2 100755
--- a/bin/update-github-list
+++ b/bin/update-github-list
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 # PYTHONPATH should be set via cron
 # export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/src/swh-lister-github/
 
-logfile=$HOME/.cache/ghlister/log/ghlister.$(date +%Y%m%d).log
+log_dir=$(grep log_dir ~/.config/swh/lister-github.ini | cut -f 3 -d' ')
+test -d "$log_dir" || mkdir -p "$log_dir"
+logfile="${log_dir}/$(date +%Y%m%d).log"
 
 # catchup with recent changes
-$HOME/src/github-list-repos/bin/ghlister catchup &> $logfile
+$HOME/src/github-list-repos/bin/ghlister catchup &> "$logfile"
 
 # XXX: computing the following stats via this script forced to have double
 # configuration for shell-vs-python. Also it's unneeded: we can compute the
 # same information (number of repos created per day) from the DB, via the
 # last_seen column.
 
 # dbservice=lister-github
 # dbconn="service=${dbservice}"
 # psql="psql --no-psqlrc --pset t --pset format=unaligned ${dbconn}"
 
 # # compute and store current totals
 # all_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from repos" | $psql)
 # fork_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from fork_repos" | $psql)
 # orig_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from orig_repos" | $psql)
 # echo "insert into repos_history(repos, fork_repos, orig_repos) values (${all_repos}, ${fork_repos}, ${orig_repos})" | $psql > /dev/null