Re: /etc/ioctl.save
From: Oliver Fuchs (oliverfuchs_at_onlinehome.de)
Date: 01/14/04
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:32:03 +0100 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:
> I noticed after an unclean shutdown (i.e. a system crash), Tripwire is
> reporting that /etc/ioctl.save has been modified.
> Does anyone know what this is? Is there reason for me to suspect that
> my system has been hacked?
>
Hi,
some time ago I had exactly the same process going on on my box and asked
the question here on the list. This is what I have been told:
[...]
Subject: Re: Changes made to /etc/ioctl.save follow
Message-ID: <bqkidu$ita$1@news.cistron.nl>
It's init (process #1). /etc/ioctl.save saves the stty(1) settings
of the console.
This is because originally, Linux and Unix didn't have a way to
specify the console speed, parity etc at bootup which for a serial
console is important. So if you boot single-user mode, at the moment
you leave single-user mode the settings of the console are saved
in /etc/ioctl.conf. The next time you boot and init is started,
it restores the console settings from /etc/ioctl.save
Now today you can set the console speed, bits and parity on the
kernel command line when booting, so it's not all that important
anymore. So in sysvinit-2.85 the ioctl.save code was removed.
Current testing/unstable doesn't have a /etc/ioctl.save anymore.
[...]
Oliver
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