diff --git a/cups.init b/cups.init
deleted file mode 100755
index 34d734c..0000000
--- a/cups.init
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,146 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# "$Id: cups.sh,v 1.10 2000/03/30 05:19:16 mike Exp $"
-#
-#   Startup/shutdown script for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS).
-#
-#   Linux chkconfig stuff:
-#
-#   chkconfig: 2345 25 10
-#   description: Startup/shutdown script for the Common UNIX \
-#                Printing System (CUPS).
-#
-#   Copyright 1997-2000 by Easy Software Products, all rights reserved.
-#
-#   These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the
-#   property of Easy Software Products and are protected by Federal
-#   copyright law.  Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file
-#   "LICENSE.txt" which should have been included with this file.  If this
-#   file is missing or damaged please contact Easy Software Products
-#   at:
-#
-#       Attn: CUPS Licensing Information
-#       Easy Software Products
-#       44141 Airport View Drive, Suite 204
-#       Hollywood, Maryland 20636-3111 USA
-#
-#       Voice: (301) 373-9603
-#       EMail: cups-info@cups.org
-#         WWW: http://www.cups.org
-#
-# heavily edited so that it's more like other scripts in init.d on Red Hat
-# Linux
-#
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides: cups
-# Required-Start: $syslog $local_fs
-# Required-Stop: $syslog $local_fs
-# Should-Start: portreserve
-# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
-# Short-Description: The CUPS scheduler
-# Description: The CUPS scheduler
-### END INIT INFO
-
-# Source function library.
-. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
-
-DAEMON=cupsd
-exec=/usr/sbin/cupsd
-prog=cups
-config=/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
-lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/cups
-
-check() {
-	# Check that we're a privileged user
-	[ `id -u` = 0 ] || exit 4
-	
-	# Check if cupsd is executable
-	[ -x $exec ] || exit 5
-}
-
-start () {
-	check
-	[ -f $config ] || exit 6
-
-	echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
-
-	# tell portreserve to release the port
-	[ -x /sbin/portrelease ] && /sbin/portrelease cups &>/dev/null || :
-
-	# start daemon
-	daemon $DAEMON
-        RETVAL=$?
-	echo
-	[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch $lockfile
-
-	udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=usb		\
-		--attr-match=bInterfaceClass=07		\
-		--attr-match=bInterfaceSubClass=01	\
-		--action=add &>/dev/null || :
-        udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=usb		\
-		--property-match=DEVNAME="/dev/usb/lp*" \
-		--action=add &>/dev/null || :
-
-	return 0
-}
-
-stop () {
-	check
-
-	# stop daemon
-	echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
-	killproc $DAEMON
-	RETVAL=$?
-	echo
-	[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
-	return 0
-}
-
-restart() {
-	stop
-	start
-}
-
-case $1 in
-	start)
-		start
-	;;
-	stop)
-		stop
-	;;
-	restart)
-		restart
-	;;
-	condrestart|try-restart)
-		[ -f $lockfile ] && restart || :
-	;;	
-	reload)
-		echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
-		killproc $DAEMON -HUP
-		RETVAL=$?
-		echo
-	;;
-	force-reload)
-		echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
-		if ! killproc $DAEMON -HUP; then
-			restart
-		fi
-		echo
-	;;
-	status)
-		status -l $(basename $lockfile) $DAEMON
-		RETVAL=$?
-	;;
-	restartlog)
-		stop
-		cat /dev/null >/var/log/cups/error_log
-		start
-	;;
-	*)
-
-	echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart|restartlog|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload|status}"
-	exit 2
-esac
-
-exit $RETVAL
diff --git a/cups.service b/cups.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dfb87b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cups.service
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=CUPS scheduler
+Requires=printer.target
+After=syslog.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=forking
+PIDFile=/var/run/cupsd.pid
+ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/cupsd -t
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd
+ExecStartPost=/sbin/udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=usb --attr-match=bInterfaceClass=07 --attr-match=bInterfaceSubClass=01 --action=add
+ExecStartPost=/sbin/udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=usb --property-match=DEVNAME="/dev/usb/lp*" --action=add
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/cups.spec b/cups.spec
index 35dd9fa..124ab7c 100644
--- a/cups.spec
+++ b/cups.spec
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@
 Summary: Common Unix Printing System
 Name: cups
 Version: 1.5
-Release: 0.8.%{alphatag}%{?dist}
+Release: 0.9.%{alphatag}%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2
 Group: System Environment/Daemons
 Source: http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/%{version}%{alphatag}/cups-%{version}%{alphatag}-source.tar.bz2
-# Our initscript
-Source1: cups.init
+# Our systemd service unit
+Source1: cups.service
 # Pixmap for desktop file
 Source2: cupsprinter.png
 # udev rules for libusb devices
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ BuildRequires: libtiff-devel
 BuildRequires: krb5-devel
 BuildRequires: avahi-devel
 BuildRequires: poppler-utils
+BuildRequires: systemd-units
 
 # Make sure we get postscriptdriver tags.
 BuildRequires: python-cups
@@ -128,6 +129,10 @@ Requires: tmpwatch
 
 # Requires /etc/tmpfiles.d (bug #656566)
 Requires: systemd-units >= 13
+Requires(post): systemd-units
+Requires(preun): systemd-units
+Requires(postun): systemd-units
+Requires(post): systemd-sysv
 
 # We use portreserve to prevent our TCP port being stolen.
 # Require the package here so that we know /etc/portreserve/ exists.
@@ -330,8 +335,8 @@ chmod 700 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{cups_serverbin}/backend/serial
 rm -rf	$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_initddir} \
 	$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/init.d \
 	$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/rc?.d
-mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_initddir}
-install -m 755 %{SOURCE1} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_initddir}/cups
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_unitdir}
+install -m 755 %{SOURCE1} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_unitdir}/%{name}.service
 
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_datadir}/cups/model -name "*.ppd" |xargs gzip -n9f
 
@@ -414,8 +419,11 @@ s:.*\('%{_datadir}'/\)\([^/_]\+\)\(.*\.po$\):%lang(\2) \1\2\3:
 ' > %{name}.lang
 
 %post
-/sbin/chkconfig --del cupsd 2>/dev/null || true # Make sure old versions aren't there anymore
-/sbin/chkconfig --add cups || true
+if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then
+	# Initial installation
+	/bin/systemctl daemon-reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
+fi
+
 # Remove old-style certs directory; new-style is /var/run
 # (see bug #194581 for why this is necessary).
 /bin/rm -rf %{_sysconfdir}/cups/certs
@@ -433,8 +441,7 @@ s:.*\('%{_datadir}'/\)\([^/_]\+\)\(.*\.po$\):%lang(\2) \1\2\3:
 	 --slave %{_mandir}/man1/lpq.1.gz print-lpqman %{_mandir}/man1/lpq-cups.1.gz \
 	 --slave %{_mandir}/man1/lpr.1.gz print-lprman %{_mandir}/man1/lpr-cups.1.gz \
 	 --slave %{_mandir}/man1/lprm.1.gz print-lprmman %{_mandir}/man1/lprm-cups.1.gz \
-	 --slave %{_mandir}/man1/lpstat.1.gz print-lpstatman %{_mandir}/man1/lpstat-cups.1.gz \
-	 --initscript cups
+	 --slave %{_mandir}/man1/lpstat.1.gz print-lpstatman %{_mandir}/man1/lpstat-cups.1.gz
 %endif
 rm -f %{_localstatedir}/cache/cups/*.ipp %{_localstatedir}/cache/cups/*.cache
 exit 0
@@ -444,9 +451,10 @@ exit 0
 %postun libs -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %preun
-if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
-	/sbin/service cups stop > /dev/null 2>&1
-	/sbin/chkconfig --del cups
+if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then
+	# Package removal, not upgrade
+	/bin/systemctl --no-reload disable %{name}.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
+	/bin/systemctl stop %{name}.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
 %if %use_alternatives
 	/usr/sbin/alternatives --remove print %{_bindir}/lpr.cups
 %endif
@@ -454,11 +462,23 @@ fi
 exit 0
 
 %postun
-if [ "$1" -ge "1" ]; then
-	/sbin/service cups condrestart > /dev/null 2>&1
+/bin/systemctl daemon-reload >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
+if [ $1 -ge 1 ]; then
+	# Package upgrade, not uninstall
+	/bin/systemctl try-restart %{name}.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
 fi
 exit 0
 
+%triggerun -- %{name} < 1.5-0.9
+# Save the current service runlevel info
+# User must manually run systemd-sysv-convert --apply cups
+# to migrate them to systemd targets
+%{_bindir}/systemd-sysv-convert --save %{name} >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
+
+# Run these because the SysV package being removed won't do them
+/sbin/chkconfig --del cups >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
+/bin/systemctl try-restart %{name}.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
+
 %triggerin -- samba-client
 ln -sf ../../../bin/smbspool %{cups_serverbin}/backend/smb || :
 exit 0
@@ -515,7 +535,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %doc %{_datadir}/%{name}/www/ja/index.html
 %doc %{_datadir}/%{name}/www/pl/index.html
 %doc %{_datadir}/%{name}/www/ru/index.html
-%{_initddir}/cups
+%{_unitdir}/%{name}.service
 %{_bindir}/cupstestppd
 %{_bindir}/cupstestdsc
 %{_bindir}/cancel*
@@ -614,6 +634,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_mandir}/man1/ipptool.1.gz
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jun 29 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.5-0.9.rc1
+- Ship systemd service unit instead of SysV initscript (bug #690766).
+
 * Wed Jun 29 2011 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 1:1.5-0.8.rc1
 - Tag localization files correctly (bug #716421).