diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 63305d603f..39ce927295 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  * Deprecate Pig support (CASSANDRA-10542)
  * Reduce contention getting instances of CompositeType (CASSANDRA-10433)
 Merged from 2.1:
+ * Status command in debian/ubuntu init script doesn't work (CASSANDRA-10213)
  * Some DROP ... IF EXISTS incorrectly result in exceptions on non-existing KS (CASSANDRA-10658)
  * DeletionTime.compareTo wrong in rare cases (CASSANDRA-10749)
  * Force encoding when computing statement ids (CASSANDRA-10755)
diff --git a/debian/init b/debian/init
index aff54e1c7a..72417ae3a1 100644
--- a/debian/init
+++ b/debian/init
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ FD_LIMIT=100000
 # process is not running but the pidfile exists (to match the exit codes for
 # the "status" command; see LSB core spec 3.1, section 20.2)
 #
-CMD_PATT="cassandra.+CassandraDaemon"
+CMD_PATT="Dcassandra-pidfile=.*cassandra\.pid"
 is_running()
 {
     if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then