diff --git a/deploy/build_env/services-linux/run_asapo.sh b/deploy/build_env/services-linux/run_asapo.sh
index 90ebf5ef671f8498182ecffdf56e61317afada37..e6116fa529f8f7324ec7befda30409dc997085e6 100755
--- a/deploy/build_env/services-linux/run_asapo.sh
+++ b/deploy/build_env/services-linux/run_asapo.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-cp build/authorizer/asapo-authorizer /asapo-authorizer
-cp build/discovery/asapo-discovery /asapo-discovery
-cp build/broker/asapo-broker /asapo-broker
-cp build/file_transfer/asapo-file-transfer  /asapo-file-transfer
-cp build/receiver/receiver /receiver
-cp build/monitoring/monitoring_server/asapo-monitoring-server /asapo-monitoring-server
+#!/bin/bash
 
+build_dir="${1:-build}"
+
+cp "$build_dir"/authorizer/asapo-authorizer /asapo-authorizer
+cp "$build_dir"/discovery/asapo-discovery /asapo-discovery
+cp "$build_dir"/broker/asapo-broker /asapo-broker
+cp "$build_dir"/file_transfer/asapo-file-transfer /asapo-file-transfer
+cp "$build_dir"/receiver/receiver /receiver
+cp "$build_dir"/monitoring/monitoring_server/asapo-monitoring-server /asapo-monitoring-server
 
 cp deploy/asapo_services_light/*json /
 cp deploy/asapo_services_light/envoy.yaml /
@@ -18,7 +21,7 @@ cp deploy/build_env/services-linux/discovery.json /
 cp deploy/build_env/services-linux/*key /
 cp deploy/build_env/services-linux/supervisord.conf /etc/
 
-cp build/deploy/asapo_services_light/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+cp "$build_dir"/deploy/asapo_services_light/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
 
 service slapd start
 ldapadd -x -D "ou=rgy,o=desy,c=de" -f /etc/ldap/record.ldif -h localhost
@@ -26,4 +29,3 @@ ldapadd -x -D "ou=rgy,o=desy,c=de" -f /etc/ldap/record.ldif -h localhost
 cd / && supervisord --configuration /etc/supervisord.conf &
 sleep 20
 cd -
-