diff --git a/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh b/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh
index 1f694b0a535c18c7443ddafae4b9b0aea9cbd89c..0a9a2e50e6819afa4bd568026aeec85b1e2de097 100755
--- a/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh
+++ b/MAC/APL/Appl_Controller/startBGL.sh
@@ -12,16 +12,12 @@
 #
 # all ACC processes expect to be started with "ACC" as first parameter
 
+. /opt/lofar/etc/BlueGeneControl.conf
 
 # startBGL starts specific CEP run scripts directly
 PARSET=/opt/lofar/share/CNProc.parset
-PARTITION=$2
 
 sed -i 's/.*OLAP.CNProc.integrationSteps.*//' $PARSET
 sed -i 's/.*OLAP.IONProc.integrationSteps.*//' $PARSET
 
-/opt/lofar/bin/runParset.py -P $PARTITION parset=$PARSET >>/opt/lofar/log/run.runParset.py.log 2>&1 &
-
-#echo "executing /usr/local/bin/submitjob $2 $3 $4 virtual_node_mode BGLMPI_SIZE=$6 ACC $5" > startBGL.output
-#/usr/local/bin/submitjob $2 $3 $4 virtual_node_mode BGLMPI_SIZE=$6 ACC $5 2>&1 | awk '{split($1, a, "="); print a[2];}' > $1.jobID
-
+$BINPATH/runParset.py -P $PARTITION parset=$PARSET >>/opt/lofar/log/run.runParset.py.log 2>&1 &
diff --git a/RTCP/Run/src/BlueGeneControl.conf b/RTCP/Run/src/BlueGeneControl.conf
index 5ff14d23a056268bf01c123e36fb049531aed15f..c2600a8dac861ebdd9c86c7759c0a71e25f80eb7 100644
--- a/RTCP/Run/src/BlueGeneControl.conf
+++ b/RTCP/Run/src/BlueGeneControl.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # BG/P Partition to use for the correlator
-PARTITION=R01
+PARTITION=R00
 
 # Root directory for the binaries
 BINPATH=/opt/lofar/bin
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ BINPATH=/opt/lofar/bin
 PIDFILE=/tmp/BlueGeneControl-$PARTITION.pid
 
 # Location of log file
-LOGFILE=/opt/lofar/log/BlueGeneControl.log
+LOGDIR=/opt/lofar/log
+LOGFILE=$LOGFILE/BlueGeneControl.log
 
diff --git a/RTCP/Run/src/LOFAR/Locations.py b/RTCP/Run/src/LOFAR/Locations.py
index 47dbca05fe57eb2606aae82e91894d3f4f13aade..e434fe192fdd81dd12e915b1ce6bbda6bbe4c702 100644
--- a/RTCP/Run/src/LOFAR/Locations.py
+++ b/RTCP/Run/src/LOFAR/Locations.py
@@ -125,18 +125,18 @@ class Locations:
 
         # where to start the executables. rundir needs to be reachable
         # for all sections.
-	"rundir":  "${BASEDIR}/bgfen/log/L${TIMESTAMP}",
+	"rundir":  "${HOME}/log/L${TIMESTAMP}",
 
         # where to store logs
-	"logdir":  "${BASEDIR}/bgfen/log/L${TIMESTAMP}",
+	"logdir":  "${HOME}/log/L${TIMESTAMP}",
 
         # where configuration files are kept
         "configdir": "${BASEDIR}/bgfen/etc",
 
         # symlink for each observation to relevant log dir
-        "obssymlink": "${BASEDIR}/bgfen/log/L${MSNUMBER}",
+        "obssymlink": "${HOME}/log/L${MSNUMBER}",
 
-        "logsymlink": "${BASEDIR}/bgfen/log/latest",
+        "logsymlink": "${HOME}/log/latest",
 
         # location of valgrind suppressions file
         "ionsuppfile": "",