Question regarding /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

[Paul Moore]

Is there any reason for keeping lines 75 - 85 of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit 
(from initscripts-8.11.1-1)?  The reason I ask is that these ten lines 
are causing AVC denial messages when using Dan Walsh's MLS policy and as 
far as I can tell these lines don't do anything useful.  In my limited 
testing removing these lines from rc.sysinit has not caused any problems 
- am I missing something?

--- rc.sysinit.orig-06082005    2005-07-08 14:42:39.000000000 -0400
+++ rc.sysinit  2005-07-08 15:09:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -70,20 +70,6 @@ relabel_selinux() {
      fi
  }

-
-
-if [ "$HOSTTYPE" != "s390" -a "$HOSTTYPE" != "s390x" ]; then
-  last=0
-  for i in `LC_ALL=C grep '^[0-9].*respawn:/sbin/mingetty' /etc/inittab 
| sed 's/^.* tty\([0-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/g'`; do
-        > /dev/tty$i
-        last=$i
-  done
-  if [ $last -gt 0 ]; then
-       > /dev/tty$((last+1))
-       > /dev/tty$((last+2))
-  fi
-fi
-
  if [ "$CONSOLETYPE" = "vt" -a -x /sbin/setsysfont ]; then
     echo -n "Setting default font ($SYSFONT): "
     /sbin/setsysfont


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. paul moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. paul.moore at hp.com                                      hewlett packard
. (603) 884-5056                                          linux security