I'm sorry, I spoke^Wwrote too soon. This job is actually done via /etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh [...] # Mount /var/run and /var/lock as tmpfs. domount tmpfs "" /var/run -omode=0755,nodev,noexec,nosuid domount tmpfs "" /var/lock -omode=1777,nodev,noexec,nosuid [...] Please look into this file for more info. Cheers Carsten