diff --git a/www/vnu/Makefile b/www/vnu/Makefile
index 976e4968a4a..f4ecc9ba9b7 100644
--- a/www/vnu/Makefile
+++ b/www/vnu/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ COMMENT =	HTML5 validator
 V =		20.6.30
 DISTNAME =	vnu.jar_$V
 PKGNAME =	vnu-$V
-REVISION =	1
+REVISION =	2
 
 CATEGORIES =	www
 
diff --git a/www/vnu/pkg/vnu.rc b/www/vnu/pkg/vnu.rc
index 0d34763ef7b..dc89dd0d7c8 100644
--- a/www/vnu/pkg/vnu.rc
+++ b/www/vnu/pkg/vnu.rc
@@ -1,18 +1,19 @@
 #!/bin/ksh
 
 daemon="${TRUEPREFIX}/share/vnu/vnu.jar"
-daemon_user="_vnu"
 daemon_flags="8888"
+daemon_user="_vnu"
 
 . /etc/rc.d/rc.subr
 
+java="$(${LOCALBASE}/bin/javaPathHelper -c vnu)"
+
+pexp="${java} -cp ${daemon} nu.validator.servlet.Main ${daemon_flags}"
 rc_bg=YES
 rc_reload=NO
 
-pexp="$(${LOCALBASE}/bin/javaPathHelper -c vnu) -cp ${daemon} nu.validator.servlet.Main ${daemon_flags}"
-
 rc_start() {
-	rc_exec "$(${LOCALBASE}/bin/javaPathHelper -c vnu) -cp ${daemon} nu.validator.servlet.Main ${daemon_flags}"
+	rc_exec "${java} -cp ${daemon} nu.validator.servlet.Main ${daemon_flags}"
 }
 
 rc_cmd $1