diff --git a/readme-vars.yml b/readme-vars.yml
index aa30ef40..7ebdef00 100644
--- a/readme-vars.yml
+++ b/readme-vars.yml
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ app_setup_block: |
 # changelog
 changelogs:
 
+  - { date: "09.07.21:", desc: "Wait for the transmission-daemon termination after a caught sigterm" }
   - { date: "06.03.21:", desc: "Add Flood for Transmission as a UI option" }
   - { date: "23.01.21:", desc: "Rebasing to alpine 3.13." }
   - { date: "02.11.20:", desc: "Add ca-certificates package to allow connecting to https trackers." }
diff --git a/root/etc/services.d/transmission/run b/root/etc/services.d/transmission/run
index a763936c..b8c49345 100644
--- a/root/etc/services.d/transmission/run
+++ b/root/etc/services.d/transmission/run
@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@
 
 _term() {
   echo "Caught SIGTERM signal!"
+  echo "Tell the transmission session to shut down."
+  pid=$(pidof transmission-daemon)
   if [ ! -z "$USER" ] && [ ! -z "$PASS" ]; then
     /usr/bin/transmission-remote -n "$USER":"$PASS" --exit
   else
     /usr/bin/transmission-remote --exit
   fi
+  # terminate when the transmission-daemon process dies
+  tail --pid=${pid} -f /dev/null
 }
 
         trap _term SIGTERM