diff --git a/DESIGN.asciidoc b/DESIGN.asciidoc
index 06d75a129926b1a38ba0992438a433ad0b357450..20586cd06f1446fedd6060a6415b5a550e212d07 100644
--- a/DESIGN.asciidoc
+++ b/DESIGN.asciidoc
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ A cli tool which uses different validators to validate workflows.
 The tool used the following files:
 
 * ${HOME}/.cache/validate_workflows/statistics.cnt
-* /var/run/lock/validate_workflows.lock
+* /var/lock/validate_workflows.lock
 
 == Ideas
 
diff --git a/validate_workflow.sh b/validate_workflow.sh
index a609c5c47b2651508f2867eb6a99891c556bb934..a02a2d3b1897c5249877a67b97f3dd00d5e5bb15 100755
--- a/validate_workflow.sh
+++ b/validate_workflow.sh
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ STAGE=any
 MODE=auto
 FILES_MODE=nothing
 STATFILE=${HOME}/.cache/validate_workflows/statistics.cnt
-LOCKFILE=/var/run/lock/validate_workflows.lock
+LOCKFILE=/var/lock/validate_workflows.lock
 WATCH_FOLDER=""
 RESULT_FOLDER=""
 VALID_FOLDER=""