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Subject: Re: system bootup console setup
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On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:00, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> Ok,  I should be able to find this somewhere
> in the documentation, but I can't (must be looking
> for the wrong key words).
>
> When the system boots, the consoles need to be initialized
> and defined somewhere.  I want to change the definition, but
> I can't find the startup script that init's them.  Which one
> is it?
/etc/ttys
and
allscreens_* in rc.conf

Cheers,
Pieter de Goeje