diff --git a/debian/gitlab.links b/debian/gitlab.links
index dec19f43f6..2d00cb523e 100644
--- a/debian/gitlab.links
+++ b/debian/gitlab.links
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ var/lib/gitlab/shared usr/share/gitlab/shared
 var/lib/gitlab/db usr/share/gitlab/db
 var/lib/gitlab/node_modules usr/share/gitlab/node_modules
 var/lib/gitlab/yarn.lock usr/share/gitlab/yarn.lock
+var/lib/gitlab/yarn-error.log usr/share/gitlab/yarn-error.log
 var/lib/gitlab/.ssh usr/share/gitlab/.ssh
 var/lib/gitlab/.bundle usr/share/gitlab/.bundle
 var/lib/gitlab/secrets.yml etc/gitlab/secrets.yml
 var/lib/gitlab/locale usr/share/gitlab/app/assets/javascripts/locale
 usr/share/gitlab/app/assets/javascripts/locale.static/index.js var/lib/gitlab/locale/index.js
 var/log/gitlab usr/share/gitlab/log
-var/log/gitlab/yarn-error.log usr/share/gitlab/yarn-error.log
 var/log/gitlab/builds usr/share/gitlab/builds
 run/gitlab usr/share/gitlab/tmp
 etc/gitlab usr/share/gitlab/config
diff --git a/debian/postinst b/debian/postinst
index 38654c6b07..fc7901054b 100755
--- a/debian/postinst
+++ b/debian/postinst
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ runuser -u ${gitlab_user} -- sh -c "touch ${gitlab_data_dir}/Gemfile.lock && \
 truncate -s 0 ${gitlab_data_dir}/Gemfile.lock"
 runuser -u ${gitlab_user} -- sh -c "touch ${gitlab_data_dir}/yarn.lock && \
 truncate -s 0 ${gitlab_data_dir}/yarn.lock"
-runuser -u ${gitlab_user} -- sh -c "touch ${gitlab_log_dir}/yarn-error.log"
+runuser -u ${gitlab_user} -- sh -c "touch ${gitlab_data_dir}/yarn-error.log"
 cd ${gitlab_app_root}
 if ! runuser -u ${gitlab_user} -- sh -c 'bundle --local --quiet'; then
   if [ "$1" = "triggered" ]; then