diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0e5b44ae..83ef4fa2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ### Added
 - create: New command copy-in-flv, which is the same as copy-in, but always relative to flavourdir (#173)
 
+### Changed
+- start: do not write jid files to POT_TMP (#178)
+
 ### Fix
 - copy-in: fix tmp source directory creation
 
diff --git a/share/pot/start.sh b/share/pot/start.sh
index f5e8b777..f96abbd0 100644
--- a/share/pot/start.sh
+++ b/share/pot/start.sh
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ _js_start()
 
 	_info "Starting the pot $_pname"
 	# shellcheck disable=SC2086
-	jail -c -J "${POT_TMP:-/tmp}/${_pname}.jail.conf" $_param exec.start="sh -c 'sleep 5&'"
+	jail -c $_param exec.start="sh -c 'sleep 5&'"
 
 	if [ -e "$_confdir/pot.conf" ] && _is_pot_prunable "$_pname" ; then
 		# set-attr cannot be used for read-only attributes