diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/pykms/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/networking/pykms/default.nix
index e1a13b73120e..345999c00bcd 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/networking/pykms/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/pykms/default.nix
@@ -44,16 +44,14 @@ in buildPythonApplication rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ systemd pytz tzlocal ];
 
+  # Fix https://github.com/SystemRage/py-kms/issues/64 :
+  patches = [ ./log-to-current-directory-by-default.patch ];
+
   postPatch = ''
     siteDir=$out/${python3.sitePackages}
 
     substituteInPlace pykms_DB2Dict.py \
       --replace "'KmsDataBase.xml'" "'$siteDir/KmsDataBase.xml'"
-
-    # we are logging to journal
-    sed -i pykms_Misc.py \
-      -e '6ifrom systemd import journal' \
-      -e 's/log_obj.addHandler(log_handler)/log_obj.addHandler(journal.JournalHandler())/'
   '';
 
   format = "other";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/networking/pykms/log-to-current-directory-by-default.patch b/pkgs/tools/networking/pykms/log-to-current-directory-by-default.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c8c65b63a2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/networking/pykms/log-to-current-directory-by-default.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# By default, create log files in current directory, instead of the script directory.
+--- ../original/py-kms/pykms_Client.py
++++ py-kms/pykms_Client.py
+@@ -48,5 +48,5 @@
+                     'choi' : ["CRITICAL", "ERROR", "WARNING", "INFO", "DEBUG", "MINI"]},
+         'lfile' : {'help' : 'Use this option to set an output log file. The default is \"pykms_logclient.log\" or type \"STDOUT\" to view log info on stdout.',
+-                   'def' : os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath( __file__ )) + "/pykms_logclient.log", 'des' : "logfile"},
++                   'def' : "pykms_logclient.log", 'des' : "logfile"},
+         'lsize' : {'help' : 'Use this flag to set a maximum size (in MB) to the output log file. Desactivated by default.', 'def' : 0, 'des': "logsize"},
+         }
+--- ../original/py-kms/pykms_Server.py
++++ py-kms/pykms_Server.py
+@@ -85,5 +85,5 @@
+                     'choi' : ["CRITICAL", "ERROR", "WARNING", "INFO", "DEBUG", "MINI"]},
+         'lfile' : {'help' : 'Use this option to set or not an output log file. The default is \"pykms_logserver.log\" or type \"STDOUT\" to view log info on stdout.',
+-                   'def' : os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath( __file__ )) + "/pykms_logserver.log", 'des' : "logfile"},
++                   'def' : "pykms_logserver.log", 'des' : "logfile"},
+         'lsize' : {'help' : 'Use this flag to set a maximum size (in MB) to the output log file. Desactivated by default.', 'def' : 0, 'des': "logsize"},
+         }
+    '');