diff --git a/roles/dbscripts/files/rsyncd-tmpfiles.d b/roles/dbscripts/files/rsyncd-tmpfiles.d
deleted file mode 100644
index c4dfeebe38d43a5300a51246b2ce36d3954e6eab..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/roles/dbscripts/files/rsyncd-tmpfiles.d
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-D /run/rsyncd 0700 nobody nobody -
diff --git a/roles/dbscripts/tasks/main.yml b/roles/dbscripts/tasks/main.yml
index fa9d343de3410c17333f3b445af3e7168320990b..07a05135cd18f6e105a87920dc9e00884f7b44fc 100644
--- a/roles/dbscripts/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/dbscripts/tasks/main.yml
@@ -210,14 +210,6 @@
 - name: Make /srv/ftp/other/packages available
   file: path=/srv/ftp/other/packages state=directory owner=root group=junior-dev mode=0775
 
-- name: Put rsyncd.conf into tmpfiles
-  copy: src=rsyncd-tmpfiles.d dest=/etc/tmpfiles.d/rsyncd.conf owner=root group=root mode=0644
-  register: rsyncdtmpfiles
-
-- name: Use tmpfiles.d/rsyncd.conf
-  command: systemd-tmpfiles --create creates=/run/rsyncd
-  when: rsyncdtmpfiles.changed
-
 - name: Create rsyncd-conf-genscripts
   file: path=/etc/rsyncd-conf-genscripts state=directory owner=root group=root mode=0700
 
diff --git a/roles/dbscripts/templates/rsyncd.conf.proto.j2 b/roles/dbscripts/templates/rsyncd.conf.proto.j2
index 5ee04c17117830879d6c3d3630c6c18a8723eb0b..2b61d0b7d9547be7105aabf1ec3c6f296ee01cfb 100644
--- a/roles/dbscripts/templates/rsyncd.conf.proto.j2
+++ b/roles/dbscripts/templates/rsyncd.conf.proto.j2
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 use chroot = no
 max connections = 12
-lock file = /var/run/rsyncd/main.lock
 syslog facility = local5
 pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
 #transfer logging = yes