diff --git a/setup/container.sh b/setup/container.sh
index 76e62e923..f8583d312 100755
--- a/setup/container.sh
+++ b/setup/container.sh
@@ -31,9 +31,6 @@ ln -sfF "${DATA_DIR}/collectd" /etc/collectd
 cp "${container_files}/docker-cloudron-app.apparmor" /etc/apparmor.d/docker-cloudron-app
 systemctl restart apparmor
 
-########## docker janitor
-cp "${container_files}/docker_janitor" /usr/sbin/docker_janitor
-
 ########## nginx
 # link nginx config to system config
 unlink /etc/nginx 2>/dev/null || rm -rf /etc/nginx
diff --git a/setup/container/docker_janitor b/setup/container/docker_janitor
deleted file mode 100755
index ddfb4da28..000000000
--- a/setup/container/docker_janitor
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -eu -o pipefail
-
-# this config matches the docker log-file configuration
-# logrotate ignores daily/monthly etc with size directive
-readonly logrotate_template=$(cat <<"EOF"
-    "$LOG_VOLUME/*" "$LOG_VOLUME/*/*" "$LOG_VOLUME/*/*/*" {
-        missingok
-        rotate 4
-        size 5M
-        nocompress
-        copytruncate
-        notifempty
-        create
-        su
-        maxage 7
-    }
-EOF
-)
-
-readonly containers=$(docker ps -qa)
-
-for container in $containers; do
-    echo "Cleaning up $container"
-
-    if logdir=$(docker inspect --format='{{index .Volumes "/var/log"}}' $container); then
-        echo -e "\tLogrotate files under $logdir"
-
-        logrotate_config=$(mktemp)
-        { echo "$logrotate_template" | LOG_VOLUME="$logdir" envsubst; } > "${logrotate_config}"
-
-        logrotate "${logrotate_config}" # -f is not required since we are size based
-
-        find "${logdir}" -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -type d -exec rm -rf {}  + # since we logrotate only till depth 3
-
-        rm "${logrotate_config}"
-    fi
-done
-
diff --git a/setup/container/systemd/cloudron.target b/setup/container/systemd/cloudron.target
index c21afa52e..8cdad32f6 100644
--- a/setup/container/systemd/cloudron.target
+++ b/setup/container/systemd/cloudron.target
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Description=Cloudron Smart Cloud
 Documentation=https://cloudron.io/documentation.html
 StopWhenUnneeded=true
-Requires=box.service docker_janitor.timer
-After=box.service docker_janitor.timer
+Requires=box.service
+After=box.service
 # AllowIsolate=yes
 
 [Install]
diff --git a/setup/container/systemd/docker_janitor.service b/setup/container/systemd/docker_janitor.service
deleted file mode 100644
index a6df0a3b9..000000000
--- a/setup/container/systemd/docker_janitor.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Docker Volumes Janitor
-OnFailure=crashnotifier@%n.service
-
-[Service]
-Type=simple
-Restart=no
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/docker_janitor
-KillMode=process
-User=root
-Group=root
-MemoryLimit=50M
-WatchdogSec=180
-
diff --git a/setup/container/systemd/docker_janitor.timer b/setup/container/systemd/docker_janitor.timer
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d6d67019..000000000
--- a/setup/container/systemd/docker_janitor.timer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Docker Volumes Janitor
-StopWhenUnneeded=true
-
-[Timer]
-# this activates it immediately
-OnBootSec=0
-OnCalendar=*-*-* 0,6,12,18:00:00
-Unit=docker_janitor.service
-
diff --git a/src/apptask.js b/src/apptask.js
index 240820fb7..14c5df0bf 100644
--- a/src/apptask.js
+++ b/src/apptask.js
@@ -235,11 +235,13 @@ function createContainer(app, callback) {
                 ExposedPorts: exposedPorts,
                 Volumes: { // see also ReadonlyRootfs
                     '/tmp': {},
-                    '/run': {},
-                    '/var/log': {}
+                    '/run': {}
                 }
             };
 
+            // older versions wanted a writable /var/log
+            if (semver.lte(targetBoxVersion(app.manifest), '0.0.71')) containerOptions.Volumes['/var/log'] = {};
+
             debugApp(app, 'Creating container for %s', app.manifest.dockerImage);
 
             docker.createContainer(containerOptions, function (error, container) {