inittab -- Where'd all my consoles go?

[Will Woods]

On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I've successfully upgraded two machines from F-8 to the F-9 beta. A  
> diff
> against my old /etc/inittab indicates Anaconda didn't touch that file,
> but my 24 consoles are no longer available? How do I get them back? I
> really do use them all and feel massively cramped with the default  
> set.

Upstart is our init now; inittab is no longer used.

See /etc/event.d/tty[1-6].

> Is this now managed elsewhere? Upstart, perhaps? If so, what file do  
> I edit to get additional consoles? And, is there a new equiv of  
> 'init q' ?

Upstart watches the files in /etc/event.d and refreshes automatically  
when they're changed.

inittab will probably contain some helpful comments explaining all  
this for F9 final.

-w