<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Remove saved console settings</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Remote Serial Console HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Configure incidentals" HREF="misc.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Change init level to textual" HREF="misc-init.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Serial console is not /dev/modem" HREF="misc-devmodem.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECTION" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Remote Serial Console HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="misc-init.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 7. Configure incidentals</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="misc-devmodem.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECTION" ><H1 CLASS="SECTION" ><A NAME="MISC-REMOVE-IOCTL-SAVE" ></A >7.3. Remove saved console settings</H1 ><P >The file <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/ioctl.save</TT > contains the serial and terminal parameters to use in single user mode. The serial and terminal parameters are usually set by <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >getty</SPAN > — during single user mode no <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >getty</SPAN > runs and the contents of <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/ioctl.save</TT > are used to set the serial and terminal parameters.</P ><P >As we are changing consoles, the saved settings are no longer correct.</P ><DIV CLASS="FIGURE" ><A NAME="REMOVE-IOCTL-SAVE-RM" ></A ><P ><B >Figure 7-4. Removal of <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >ioctl.save</TT > containing the saved console parameters</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><TT CLASS="PROMPT" >bash#</TT > <B CLASS="COMMAND" >rm -f /etc/ioctl.save</B ></PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><P >We re-create this file once we can log in from the serial console.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="misc-init.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="misc-devmodem.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Change <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >init</SPAN > level to textual</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="misc.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Serial console is not <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/dev/modem</TT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >