Entries in `/etc/inittab` below last line - possible hack? [closed]

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Published on 2012-10-05T11:59:42Z Indexed on 2012/10/06 21:40 UTC
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My Linux machine has been hacked lately.

There are a few entires in /etc/inittab below the

#end of /etc/inittab

Something like:

#Loading standard ttys
0:2345:once:/usr/sbin/ttyload

I also have serveral of the following lines:

2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
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.

I know that my /usr/sbin/ttyload has been hacked, and I have removed it, but I don't know if I need this is inittab, nor whether I had ttyload before. Is this file common?

Should I remove this line?

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