On 10/11/17 09:29, Howard Howell wrote: > Hi, guys, > What is this file: > /sys/module/ebtable_broute/uevent > > When I do "# ls -al" it shows up as: > --w-------. 1 root root 4096 Oct 10 18:22 uevent > > I have never seen a file with ONLY write permissions and root > ownership before. This would seem to be an error, or something left > over from debugging, unless it is an intrusion into my system. > > Google didn't seem to know about it either. > You should not be concerned about running clamav on /dev, /proc, /sys. These contain "system" files that are not persistent and are maintained by the kernel. FWIW, ebtables is "Ethernet Bridge Firewalling". So, you have the module ebtable_broute loaded and it created and uses that file for some reason. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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