diff --git a/etc/centos/fpm-make.sh b/etc/centos/fpm-make.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3997b27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/centos/fpm-make.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+PACKAGEDIR=${PACKAGEDIR:=/tmp}
+
+tempdir=$(mktemp -d /tmp/ot-XXX)
+
+make install DESTDIR=$tempdir
+
+name="ot-recorder"
+version=$(awk '{print $NF;}' version.h | sed -e 's/"//g' )
+arch=$(uname -m)
+rpmfile="${PACKAGEDIR}/${name}_${version}_${arch}.rpm"
+
+rm -f "${rpmfile}"
+
+fpm -s dir \
+        -t rpm \
+        -n ${name} \
+        -v ${version} \
+        --vendor "OwnTracks.org" \
+        -a native \
+        --maintainer 'jpmens@gmail.com' \
+        --description "A lightweight back-end for consuming OwnTracks data from an MQTT broker" \
+        --license "https://github.com/owntracks/recorder/blob/master/LICENSE" \
+        --url "http://owntracks.org" \
+        -C $tempdir \
+        -p ${rpmfile} \
+        -d "libcurl" \
+        -d "libmosquitto1" \
+        -d "lua" \
+        --post-install etc/centos/postinst \
+        usr var
diff --git a/etc/centos/postinst b/etc/centos/postinst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..011dac3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/centos/postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# postinstall for Centos7
+#
+# Create owntracks user & group
+# binaries are setuid to owntracks
+# storage belongs to owntracks:owntracks
+
+set -e
+
+case "$1" in
+    1)
+        getent group owntracks > /dev/null || /usr/sbin/groupadd --system owntracks
+        getent passwd owntracks > /dev/null || adduser --system -g owntracks --no-create-home owntracks
+        mkdir -p /var/spool/owntracks/recorder/store/last
+        mkdir -p /var/spool/owntracks/recorder/store/ghash
+        chown -R owntracks:owntracks /var/spool/owntracks/recorder/store
+        chgrp owntracks /var/spool/owntracks/recorder/store/ghash
+        chown owntracks:owntracks /usr/local/bin/ocat /usr/local/sbin/ot-recorder
+        chmod 4111 /usr/local/bin/ocat /usr/local/sbin/ot-recorder
+        /usr/local/sbin/ot-recorder --initialize
+    ;;
+
+    abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
+    ;;
+
+    *)
+        echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
+        exit 1
+    ;;
+esac
+
+exit 0