diff --git a/changes/bug16244 b/changes/bug16244
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..00bc5579837bec22ee7fd4d4ea2001574eccff3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug16244
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, relay):
+    - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay again.  This
+      includes correctly allowing renaming secret_id_key and
+      allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls.
+      Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
+      Patch by Peter Palfrader.
+
diff --git a/src/common/sandbox.c b/src/common/sandbox.c
index a32bd0d901624ff89e669d9cd06c335be016873c..cdb4521c82ef65f97b8dce83dd6e0336899632bd 100644
--- a/src/common/sandbox.c
+++ b/src/common/sandbox.c
@@ -129,11 +129,13 @@ static int filter_nopar_gen[] = {
     SCMP_SYS(clone),
     SCMP_SYS(epoll_create),
     SCMP_SYS(epoll_wait),
+    SCMP_SYS(eventfd2),
     SCMP_SYS(fcntl),
     SCMP_SYS(fstat),
 #ifdef __NR_fstat64
     SCMP_SYS(fstat64),
 #endif
+    SCMP_SYS(futex),
     SCMP_SYS(getdents64),
     SCMP_SYS(getegid),
 #ifdef __NR_getegid32
diff --git a/src/or/main.c b/src/or/main.c
index bbee8e0fb9e61927447d644fad37463f46d1ec10..5fa3a0150065bb9bf81a1d34134d3ef430fce681 100644
--- a/src/or/main.c
+++ b/src/or/main.c
@@ -3042,7 +3042,7 @@ sandbox_init_filter(void)
   // orport
   if (server_mode(get_options())) {
 
-    OPEN_DATADIR2_SUFFIX("keys", "secret_id_key", "tmp");
+    OPEN_DATADIR2_SUFFIX("keys", "secret_id_key", ".tmp");
     OPEN_DATADIR2_SUFFIX("keys", "secret_onion_key", ".tmp");
     OPEN_DATADIR2_SUFFIX("keys", "secret_onion_key_ntor", ".tmp");
     OPEN_DATADIR2("keys", "secret_id_key.old");