Re: Setting TERM in single user mode

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, David Brownlee wrote:
>       This is actually a very good reason for console *and* constty:
>
>           console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     vt220   off
>           constty "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     vt220   on secure
>           ttyE0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"     vt220   off secure
>
>       The above will also DTRT with a serial console

Where is the distinction between console and constty documented?  I
don't see a constty(4) man page.  console(4) [at least on i386] doesn't
mention constty.  tty(4) doesn't mention either console or constty.
init(8) talks about running a single user shell "on the console", and
doing special things with /dev/console, but doesn't mention constty at
all.

--apb (Alan Barrett)