Instead of guessing about symlinks, use stat to check whether the filesystem refered to is actually a tmpfs. Then always clean up if it isn't. --- rc.sysinit | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index 7357582..1dd3d9a 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ RANDOM_SEED=/var/lib/misc/random-seed stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files" rm -rf /etc/{nologin,shutdownpid} /forcefsck /tmp/* /tmp/.* /var/run/daemons &>/dev/null - [[ ! -L /var/lock ]] && rm -rf /var/lock/* - if [[ ! -L /var/run && -d /var/run ]]; then + [[ -d /var/lock && $(stat -f -c %T -L /var/lock) != tmpfs ]] && rm -rf /var/lock/* + if [[ -d /var/run && $(stat -f -c %T -L /var/run) != tmpfs ]]; then find /var/run/ \! -type d -delete ln -s /run/daemons /var/run/daemons fi -- 1.7.1