diff --git a/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl b/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl
index 26f10d6..e1c8631 100755
--- a/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl
+++ b/bsp/default/root_file_system/etc/rc.local.tpl
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ mkdir /tmp/crawldata
 httpd -h /tmp/crawldata
 
 # serve the 30s-cached output of "report.sh gzip" on port 81 with max 1 request/s
-/etc/serve.sh 81 1 "/etc/cache.sh 30 /etc/report.sh gzip"
+/etc/serve.sh 81 1 "/etc/cache.sh 30 /etc/report.sh gzip" &
 
 touch /tmp/started